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imperilment

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See: danger, hazard, jeopardy, menace, peril, risk


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236) The distance between potential rescuers and imperiled strangers is morally significant: faced with a choice between intervening in two cases which are identical on the facts apart from that in the first case imperilment is physically close and in the second it is not, people are likely to feel a greater responsibility to intervene in the first case rather than the second.
The eagerness to bring one man to justice may very well in this case have a serious downside risk, the least of which is a renewed civil war or a reversion to an even harsher dictatorship and, last but not least, the imperilment of a huge humanitarian operation providing assistance to millions of people urgently in need of help.
The eagerness to bring one man to justice may very well in this case have a serious downside risk, the least of which is a renewed civil war or a reversion to an even harsher dictatorship and, last but not least, the imperilment of a huge humanitarian operation providing assistance to millions of people urgently in need of help.
 
 
 
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