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You’re starting to sound terrifyingly like an unethical scientist. We know how that ends, we’ve been down that road before, and we know why it is a terrible ide
by jama211 11mo ago
You’re starting to sound terrifyingly like an unethical scientist. We know how that ends, we’ve been down that road before, and we know why it is a terrible idea.
- rogerrogerr 11mo agoThere is a lot of space between “persons with a debilitating condition are prohibited from choosing to take a risky treatment that might help” and “hey let’s feed these prisoners smallpox-laced cheese for a week and see what happens”. The “no harm, ever” crowd does not have a monopoly on ethics.
- jama211 11mo agoA straw man argument? On my HN?