Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
by nradov on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:36PM
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I'm not missing anything. Medical ethics as commonly understood in modern western civilization imposes a clear line between withholding care versus actively killing someone who is unable to give informed consent to the procedure. The topic under discussion isn't even close to being an edge case. Minimizing the bad is not the goal. Nuclear power has zero relevance here and bringing it up is just an attempt to confuse the issue.
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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
by LorenPechtel on Saturday March 08, 2025 @06:38PM
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It used to be that medical "ethics" precluded actively killing someone. That's a religious legacy that more and more countries are coming to recognize is wrong. Fundamentally, this reduces to whether quality of life can be negative.
If quality of life can be negative then there will be cases where the humane act is to provide someone with a comfortable death.
And my point about nuclear power is that excessive regulation actually is counterproductive at maximizing human benefit.