Lawgivers make the citizens good by training them in habits of right.… This is the aim of
all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.
— ARISTOTLE, NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS
While the Anglo-American tradition emphasizing individual freedom of choice is a
major reason our legal system demands no duty to rescue, law professor Steven Heyman
argues that recognition of a duty to rescue is in line with that very tradition. His article appeared in a communitarian journal. Communitarians are concerned with reviving the
notion of shared responsibility and interconnectedness at a time when, they believe, too
many people view social change solely in terms of defining and enforcing an evergrowing
number of personal rights.