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You see this in organ donation. Opt-in is abysmal, but it's the reverse when they switch to opt-out. I get the utilitarian reason for the change but it's ethica
by casefields 5y ago
You see this in organ donation. Opt-in is abysmal, but it's the reverse when they switch to opt-out. I get the utilitarian reason for the change but it's ethically and morally dubious.
Informed consent is the gold standard, except when it's not.
- ghaff 5y agoThe economist Richard Thaler (who wrote the book Nudge & won Nobel for behavioral economics work) has, I believe, actually argued against opt out in this case because defaults are so powerful next of kin will also argue there was no informed consent.
- shkkmo 5y agoOnce we provide sufficient funding to coroners and the rules around how the human tissue procurement industry operate are fixed, I might be on board with it if it were accompanied by a big enough public awareness campaign.
- Tyrannosaur 5y agoWhat about the human tissue procurement industry rules needs to be fixed?
- akiselev 5y ago> Informed consent is the gold standard, except when it's not. You're thinking of medical research and experimentation. In the practice of medicine the Hippocratic oath takes precedence over everything else so of course informed consent gets thrown out when there is concrete evidence that it interferes with medicine's purpose: healing people. When's the last time someone gave informed consent while unconscious and bleeding out after a car crash or shooting? That's why we have DNRs.
- Dylan16807 5y agoI'm okay with consent rules being stricter for people that are alive.