Good Samaritan Laws

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Good Samaritan laws are in effect in most jurisdictions, and specifically cover the application of metahuman abilities to protect people or remove them from danger, as well as aid the ill or injured.

Roughly speaking, they provide legal protection for people who might otherwise face criminal or civil actions based on their good-faith efforts to aid other people, as long as they acted in a reasonable fashion and in accordance with their training and understanding of the situation.

For example, although mind-control of an unwilling target is a criminal act, mind-controlling all the people inside a building to leave it in an immediate and orderly fashion before it collapses would be covered by Good Samaritan laws if it was a reasonable way of getting them out of danger.