[ExI] Virologist cures herself of breast cancer with a lab grown virus

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 2:58 PM Anton Sherwood <bronto at pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2024-11-21 09:57, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> > Those aside, yes, most of the talk about "ethics" in practice is about,
> > "how dare that person take personal sovereignty over something that we
> > are the self-appointed experts and masters of."
>
> Imagine applying a consent standard to matters other than sex!
> Our world as we know it could crumble.
>

More to the point: if one needed to obtain consent from every party who
claims to need to give consent.  Ordinary rent-seekers ("you didn't pay me
for my okay for this specific instance") would just be the start of the
problems; evolved forms might require all manner of other compensation
("you need to vote my preferred candidate into office"/"you need to post on
social media affirming our position"/etc.), and then there's merely
tracking down everyone who will have their hands out - which act of
tracking will likely inspire some to put their hands out, encouraging
people to keep these activities secret (with all the problems that results
in).
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