What if the scenario wasn’t so simple? What if you’d slipped over the edge of a cliff, and the only thing keeping you from falling to your death was me holding your hand? What if my arm was in serious pain, and my shoulder was dislocated by your weight? What if I’d been forced by someone else to hold your hand before you slipped? Would I have the right to choose to let go? No. I’d need to hold on as long as possible, until some other help could come. My body matters. But your body matters too.
