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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Well yeah. In a realistic setting, you'll provide first aid to them when they're down, try to talk them into surrendering peacefully, testify at a parole hearing about how you forgive them. "Help" is not necessarily "help the bad guy be a bad guy". In fact that would probably be the opposite of a Charitable person's idea of helping.
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Sure, but doing so for your enemies even in situations where it would pose significant danger to yourself and when you don't have a duty to act is uncommon. Not non-existent, but rare.
For example consider the
bystander effect. Under the right conditions a large majority of people choose to not help even when the one who needs help is not an enemy.