A Robot's Guide to the Chain of Command

[BaneOfGiygas]

In your example, a medic is ordering you to do something, so law 2 is in effect. It's a pretty bad example when the goal is to isolate the inaction clause.

Point. Let's pretend that the medic hasn't told you to do this, and consider something else you've said:

The cessation of an action is in itself, an action. However, willfully choosing to ignore someone in need is not an action.

Look at that bolded piece. To CHOOSE to do something is an action. As paradoxical as it sounds, deciding to do nothing is a decision, ignoring someone is an action.