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Many treatments of severe conditions do substantial harm, which is considered acceptable for the benefits. Extreme examples are chemotherapy, i.e. giving poiso
by emiliobumachar 8y ago
Many treatments of severe conditions do substantial harm, which is considered acceptable for the benefits.
Extreme examples are chemotherapy, i.e. giving poison to cancer patients, and radiotherapy, i.e. irradiating them. The healthy cells can take it, the cancer cells not so much. Statistically.
- JamesBarney 8y agoYeah but this isn't chemotherapy, and with chemotherapy you are literally trying to kill cells.
- emiliobumachar 8y agoA distinction without a difference. What I meant was: it may be worth it to cause some neural damage to defuse whatever mechanism causes a disease that, when unstopped, causes more neural damage. Hence "kick the TV" technologies are not out of consideration. Obviously, very big ethical issues arise when experimenting on people, but that's nothing new. Someone took radiotherapy first, before anyone was sure it was worth it to the individual.