##  [Rule of Rescue](/rule-rescue) 

  ##  [Rule of Rescue](https://health.quantumdictionary.io/rule-rescue-0) 

  

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Definition

A moral and policy tendency to prioritize immediate efforts to save identifiable individuals facing imminent danger, even when those efforts are disproportionate to cost‑effective or population‑level allocations of resources.