Is it necessary to issue a good Samaritan law?

Brian G (UK)

It was reported that two teenage boys from the UK who tried to rescue two girls from drowning were pressured to pay 50,000 yuan each to the girls' families for failing to save them. Experts call it "the Samaritan's dilemma" - pitting a good act against the potential risk of anything going wrong. It is not an isolated problem that only exists in China. Helping strangers doesn't seem to be easy and for some it has resulted in tragedy, but laws to encourage such behavior are welcome and even necessary.

An Australian man is seen performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a drowning man at a beach in Yantai city, east China’ss Shandong province, on Aug 26, 2012.