英文摘要 |
The prevailing opinion opposes the criminalization of the failure to render emergency aid. However, the arguments provided are not persuasive. The notion offailure to render emergency aid by a stranger contains two subordinate concepts, namely failure to stand out for justice and courage, and failure to provide a convenient assistance. The latter refers to the circumstance where the aider or any third party faces no real danger. To render aid in this condition does not burden the assistance provider; moreover, it promotes the utility of the whole society. In another word, it is a winwin deal.Considering the protection of legal interests and maintenance of the minimum scale of the public order, it is necessary to criminalize the failure to provide a convenient and reasonable assistance. This criminalization neither takes any risks nor violates the humanity, and it does not result in the moralization of legal duties. Besides, it causes no responsibility based on moral luck, nor contradicts the principle of subsidiarity of the criminal law. Furthermore, after the legislation of this offense, some omissions to effect an easy rescue, which have been traditionally punished as actions, can be covered by this clause, in order to rationalize the existing punishment of failure to render emergency aid. |