The sunandha effect

The penalty for touching her was death. It may have been, as you say, well deserved (I don't know), but there had been cases similar where they saved the person and the rescuer was executed because they violated the law.

Did you intentionally misunderstand what I said? I did not say the penalty was well deserved but the malicious compliance of letting her drown by following the rule.

I literally addressed what you said. "It may have been, as you say, well deserved (I don't know)". Maybe I just wasn't clear enough, about what was deserved. In this case I was referring to letting her drown. I wasn't contradicting you.