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Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
"I think the first thing I ought to do then, thinking about the environmental events that are going to impinge on human beings. . . and also setting up another discipline which was related to it: Whatever I must do on behalf of my fellow man must never trespass on my fellow man. That is, I must never increase restraints on him; I must reduce restraints on him. I must free more of his time of his life to his own decisions.
“I could say: What do you mean by ‘not trespassing’? . . . And I could get that pretty well defined. So I said: there’s this man and you didn’t know him, so I just jump over here and quick react. I saw that something was falling from the ceiling and was going to hit you in the head. And you’d be killed. And I didn’t have time to say anything. So I just went likethat to grab you and knock you over to get you out of the way. And you say: I wish you hadn’t done that. And I say: Why? And you say: Well, I wanted to die. And I say: Well, you’ve got to make that decision. I do not think I’m trespassing on you when I give you the decision whether you’re going to die. Clearly I’m not trespassing if I see something’s going to kill you that you don’t know about and I do something”
