Refusal to Intervene. The Ethics of Not Helping (en Inglés) - Chloe Felder

Across personal, clinical, and social contexts, intervention is often treated as the ethical default. To hesitate appears negligent. To wait appears cold. Refusal to Intervene examines this asymmetry by exploring how care becomes compulsory before consent, timing, or jurisdiction have been established.

Drawing on ethical philosophy and social psychology, the book analyzes how urgency, clarity, and concern quietly authorize entry into another person's process. It does not argue against care or provide rules for action, but instead asks a prior question: what authorizes entry at all?