I understand that Shabbat is of extreme importance and only certain dire situations would warrant violating it. Included is of course saving, at the very least a Jew's life, at any costs and even with very chances are slim. I value all human life to be of the up most importance and think that everyone has a Tzelem Elikom, and I must say that I was a bit disturbed with the fact that if there is no chance that it is a Jew we are not able to save the person's life if it involves violating Shabbat. Do we not maintain that all lives are so valuable that we should do whatever it takes (except for the 3 cardinal sins or other situations as presented in the sugya in Sanhedrin) to save them. I of course think that whatever Hash-m will says is most important and ethiccal indeed is, so this sugya is one that I would like to understand how in the world this can be the right thing to do. Thanks

David Bassan, Givat Shmuel, Israel