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If we block someones ability to try novel procedures, how is that any different from blocking their right to assisted suicide?
by latchkey 3y ago
If we block someones ability to try novel procedures, how is that any different from blocking their right to assisted suicide?
- kif 3y agoI think guaranteed death is much more different than potential death and potential cure. It's a tough line to walk on, still.
- latchkey 3y agoThe only guarantee in life, is death.
- _Algernon_ 3y ago...and taxes.
- tekla 3y agoThe difference is in how painful and how long that death will be
- amelius 3y agoBecause access to novel procedures gives us valuable data.
- lr4444lr 3y agoA steel-man response would be that assisted suicide is more about pain reduction, whereas experimental drugs could have terrible side effects. It isn't a convincing argument to me, because possible death avoidance is a higher level of morality to me, but harm reduction is extremely prevalent in medicine as a driving factor.
- zer8k 3y agoBut we allow physician assisted suicide. Strange isn't it? Almost sounds like soylent green. Maybe I'll skip McDonald's this week.