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It's immoral in a lot of cases, but is it immoral in every case? I don't think so. Take a person who has a heart condition AND cancer that is 100% certainly g
by lostapathy 8y ago
It's immoral in a lot of cases, but is it immoral in every case? I don't think so.
Take a person who has a heart condition AND cancer that is 100% certainly going to kill him within a month and has no close family/friends to spend his dying days with. Would it be immoral for them to take a 1% chance of losing a couple crappy weeks to possibly make a huge step forward for science?
These things need to be wielded judiciously, but there are cases where the rewards outweigh the risks to a point a person of sound mind should be able to take the risk for the benefit of humanity.
- z2 8y agoI'm not involved in research, but recall that ethics review specifically looks for beneficence towards participants, the notion that participants themselves have risk minimized, and that one cannot pursue information to their detriment.