Recent debates about supererogatory rescues have sought to explain how it can be wrong to perform a suboptimal rescue although it would be permissible not to rescue at all. This paper proposes a new solution to this puzzle. It argues that existing accounts have neglected two critical considerations. First, contrary to what is commonly assumed, a rescue’s supererogatory nature has no bearing on the duties that apply to agents who rescue in supererogatory fashion. Second, we cannot justify harms caused as a side effect of supererogatory rescues by appealing to the fact that it would have been permissible not to rescue at all. Ultimately, the paper proposes, the same duties that apply in cases in which rescuing is required also apply in cases in which rescuing is supererogatory. A rescue’s supererogatory nature, it turns out, is not the game changer we thought it was.

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超级救援

最近关于超级救援的争论试图解释尽管完全不救援也是允许的，但进行次优救援为何会是错误的。本文针对这个难题提出了一个新的解决方案。它认为现有的账户忽略了两个关键的考虑因素。首先，与通常的假设相反，救援的超职性质与适用于以超职方式进行救援的人员的职责无关。其次，我们不能通过诉诸根本不进行救援这一事实来证明过度救援的副作用所造成的伤害是正当的。该文件最终建议，适用于需要救援的情况的相同义务也适用于救援是多余的情况。事实证明，救援的本质是多余的，