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> We consider it perfectly acceptable I doubt people on an ethics board for medical studies would find that perfectly acceptable.
by krageon 6y ago
> We consider it perfectly acceptable
I doubt people on an ethics board for medical studies would find that perfectly acceptable.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoAnd I agree, but isn't that a strong indictment of medical ethics? If medical ethicists would rather let a fire burn out of control than risk the lives of firefighters to put it out, they're not optimizing for the right thing.
- krageon 6y agoI don't see why it is a strong indictment of any sort of ethics. Waging war is wrong, and saying that it's perfectly acceptable to do so is entirely missing the point. Firefighters are a separate issue altogether, because the subject being discussed is a lot more ambiguous than firefighting (where the problem is clear, and the consequence for sending a firefighter is a positive result).