Was there an ethical obligation to share the defibrillator?

The answer is not obvious.

Next paragraph.

Officials and experts said there was apparently no legal obligation for the de Young to share the device.

They highlighted several complicating considerations: What if the staffer had lent it out, and minutes later someone at the museum collapsed and needed it, they asked. And why should he lend it quickly to a distressed stranger, not knowing if it was a thief trying to make off with a device that usually costs around $2,000?

What if two people at the museum collapse at the same time and require defibrillating? What if the thief actually needed that money to save 3 lives?

I know what motherfucker ghostwrote this drivel.

"I would rather someone die than risk breaking an arbitrary rule that carries no consequences" - America, 2023

uhh, just take it dude.

This is what happens when society is centered around profit. The need of the institution to avoid liability, potential liability, is put higher than a person's life. The staff member probably feared they'd lose their job or be retaliated against if they made a real decision. The boss made a choice to defend the institution at any cost.

What a fucked up system.

Life saving necessities are right there and they're systematically denied to the ones who need them. We have enough housing to house the homeless. We have enough food to feed the hungry. We have enough medicine to heal the world. Yet doing all these things is a threat to profit, and so instead we feed bodies into the profit grinder, and the capitalists become rich and powerful on their blood.

“We are deeply saddened to learn about the death of Gary Hobish in Golden Gate Park,” museum Director of Communications Helena Nordstrom said in emails to the Chronicle. “We don’t know exactly what happened and are trying to determine the facts.

“We don't permit technical equipment beyond laptops to leave the building without permission. Then again, the event has prompted us to review the museums’ emergency response procedures for events that may occur outside the museum premises in the future so we can be as helpful as possible.”

• do not admit responsibility of any kind ("we are sorry" can be interpreted an admission of guilt).
• do not admit even a cursory understanding of the reported sequence of events that took place
• investigate internally
• imply internal examination of policies

CYA, the most american of moves.

any building open to the public and hosting an organization that has received > 1 cent of public assistance, tax credits, in-kind contributions or anything i'm not thinking of should be required to have these and make them available to anyone who asks. it should just be baked into the "cost of doing anything" like potable water, stable structures or other features of public safety. $2k ain't shit. hell, we pay cops 3x that a month in the most podunk ass towns to take naps in their cars and shoot pets.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but WHO THE FUCK STEALS A DEFIBRILLATOR? IS THERE SOME SORT OF UNDERGROUND BLACK MARKET FOR DEFIBRILLATORS OF WHICH I AM UNAWARE?

Of course it's San Francisco

Publish that boss's name.

🙂

If I could teach every spineless American liberal one thing with the snap of my finger it is that STEALING IS EASY AND MORALLY CORRECT IN MANY SITUATIONS.

The museum staffer checked with his boss, but the answer was firm: The de Young defibrillator could not leave the building.

ethics without morals strikes again

Death to America

i realize it is a feature of the communist's worldsickness to hear this and think "this is because capitalism," but i cannot think of another reason that multiple people could be told "there is an urgent medical emergency and we need the tiniest bit of help from you" and reply "that's not my problem, plus i could get in trouble."

TIL duty to rescue laws don't exist in most countries

What the fuck?

Reminds me of the kids who were punished for saving their classmates from asthma attacks. One was punished for "sharing a controlled substance", an inhaler, and the other was punished for carrying a kid to the nurse after the teacher told the class to stay in their seats while she waited for an email response from the nurse, even after the kid had collapsed on the floor from minutes of not being able to breathe. https://archive.is/xwnju