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Most readers will recall the story of the Good Samaritan who helped a Levite who had fallen among thieves and been mugged. Significantly this aid was provided after both a priest and a Levite had previously and literally walked by on the other side.

Judith Jarvis Thomas (1971) writes of Kitty Genovese, who "was murdered while thirty eight people watched or listened and did nothing at all to help her" . She suggests: "A Good Samaritan would have rushed out to give assistance against the murderer. Or perhaps we had better allow that it would have been a Splendid Samaritan who did this, on the ground that it would have involved a risk of death of himself. But the thirty-eight not only did not do this, they did not even trouble to pick up a phone to call the police. Minimally decent Samaritans would call for doing at least that, and their not having done it was monstrous."....

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About the author:

Gavin Mooney is Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney.

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