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It's a bit like the trolley problem. Allowing someone medicine that might kill them feels like pushing someone onto the tracks but not allowing it feels like i
by Symmetry 7y ago
It's a bit like the trolley problem. Allowing someone medicine that might kill them feels like pushing someone onto the tracks but not allowing it feels like inaction even if in the course of events someone will die.
Also, the agency that is supposed to prevent medicine from killing people understandably gets blamed if medicine kills people. But they aren't doctors so it isn't them that gets blamed if lack of medicine kills someone.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> It's a bit like the trolley problem. Allowing someone medicine that might kill them feels like pushing someone onto the tracks Huh? Surely allowing someone to take medicine that might kill them feels like letting someone jump onto the tracks. The analogue of pushing someone onto the tracks would be forcing them to take the medicine.
- Symmetry 7y agoThat's how I would think of it but if you work in a department under a legal framework where drugs are illegal by default and you have to do certain paperwork to make them legal it will tend to feel very different.