Scientists and ethicists debate the hard questions - "Is it ethical to cure cancer?"

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1855182600093995139

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03647-0

In choosing to self-experiment, Halassy joins a long line of scientists who have participated in this under-the-radar, stigmatized and ethically fraught practice. "It took a brave editor to publish the report," says Halassy.

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Ethicists have strong arguments for their positions.

lol no.

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You wouldn't know because you've never read any ethics.

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I've read Kant, Nietzsche, a little Hegel, Rawls, a bunch of ancient Greeks, Aquinas, Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Laozi, Pascal, even Marx (the idiot), a little Rousseau, Kierkegaard, a little Habermas (idiot), Searle (meh),..

Which ones do you think are most relevant here?

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You don't think they made good arguments? You might not have understood them. And you haven't read any contemporary academic ethics?

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I haven't seen them make any good arguments for why it is evil to risk your own health in order to prevent your own death.

I've seen lackeys for the pharma industry and bureaucrats whose job title is something with ethics say that, but I wouldn't call what they said "good arguments."

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Then maybe you should look for the people who made the arguments for the position you are ridiculing?

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this post is about that, if you're thinking about some other ethics topic the whole time, you should probably mention it.

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This post is not about the actual arguments, it's about ridiculing the position without bothering to engage with what they are actually arguing.

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