2010-10-08, 01:20 PM
Fiel Wrote:You switched over to "Duty to Rescue".
A piece of property cannot be a party. A party is defined as an entity that can bring about a civil action in court. A house cannot bring a civil action to court - it is a piece of wood and has no legal rights. Because it cannot be a party, there is no duty to rescue it from peril it cannot feel. If there were people inside that building (there weren't), the firefighters would have a duty to rescue them. However, the firefighters do not have a duty to put out this fire.
Last post. Seriously.
What about animals, would they count?
After thinking about this more and reading more things on it, I don't really believe the firefighters did anything wrong, but morally it's just seen as a bad decision. But the world and laws we go by aren't based on moral decisions.

