[MD] NAP

[blue-jay maple]

John:
> How about restraining a kid who is about to run into the road?

Nick:
Thank goodness.  A little discourse.

I need context.  Are you saying there is no other choice?  There is no way 
to step in front of the kid and persuade the kid from doing it.  I follow the 
a virtue-ethics in understanding what the NAP means.  Virtue-ethics recognizing 
flourishing.  Compassion and empathy is not initiating physical coercion.  But...
But... there is also the other side of the coin.  What if a kid is committing suicide or 
what if anybody is committing suicide.  All one can do is try to persuade them 
from not doing it.  We can compassionately stop them physically.  Yet there is 
point when compassion favors the suicide taking place, when life is too much, and 
suicide will occur.  I would do everything to stop it from happening, reasonably stop it that 
is, but if it happens in secret I can't do it anything about it.
By careful of liability too though.  If you try and stop the kid from hitting the bus 
and accidently trip and push the kid into the bus.  In the U.S. today and in natural 
law you could be liable for murder.  Cause the case against you will be asking this 
one question:  How did you know the kid wasn't going to stop before the bus hit him?  
And so you tripped and pushed him.  You would be on trial for murder.

but I would need context, so, if you meant something else I would like to know.

:-)

Nick 


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