Honest question.....real life example.
Lisa and I were headed up the road a few weeks ago. We went by a guardrail and I noticed a doe laying there with her head up. I got off at the next exit.......turned around.....made a big loop and got back there. I walked back to where the doe was and her legs front were mangled up pretty badly....panting up a storm.
So.......what do you do?
I can tell you that if I would have had a weapon....she'd have been dead in seconds. Would I have been a "poacher"? Call me what you would have. I didn't have a weapon....which is the ONLY reason the GW got a call. He came and dispatched her. Should she have been left to give it a go on her own......"will to survive"?
Every once in a while we are forced to make these type decisions. I put my dog down last year when she was sick. I made that decision for her. I woud have (and ultimately did) made that decision for that doe, that day.
I sleep really well.
Actuallly in your example, you would be violation of the law if you didn't save the girl if you can swim.
Not in this state.