[eqvinox]

> how it became encoded into Western institutions,

> This is not a human universal. Continental Civil Law systems (France, Germany) criminalize failure to rescue

Might want to phrase "western institutions" a bit more precisely. The parts of Europe I know have good protections for Samaritans & the article itself even acknowledges some of this too.

[ahoka]

Very weird. Europe is not “West”? Then what is? The Anglosphere? What kind of defaultism the author suffers?

[rkomorn]

Especially Western Europe, which is most definitely part of "the West" (by virtue of its political alignment, not its geographical location).