The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 13: I Had No Choice!
Necessity pg 19: A life for a life ain’t Necessity
But if Jack could have secured himself? If his death wasn’t a foregone conclusion?
Jack dangling from the rope, calling up to Jill
JACK
Hold on for a few more second, Jill, and then you can let go!
The heck is she doing?
Then it wasn’t a case of one dying instead of two.
Jill making her point
JILL
It was me living instead of you.
One life doesn’t outweigh another. Trading one harm for an equal harm doesn’t serve the greater good. It’s an equivalent evil, not the lesser evil.
The same scales from two pages back, Jack and Jill equal