&gt; […] contact with a situation doesn&#x27;t make you more obligated to assist than someone who had no contact.<p>This sounds like an answer of all three mentioned people having equal obligation. That is, the second boyfriend could ethically claim, &quot;I have no obligation to take you in – after all, literally anyone else with equal capability could do it instead.&quot;<p>If I understand this correctly, then thank you for the clarification.