<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 4:56 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div>So somebody (allegedly) cures themselves of cancer, and all the fuss
is about "the ethics of self-experimentation".</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Issue 1: did she actually cure herself? Did she have cancer, does she now not have cancer, and are there any notable negative-to-her side effects?</div><div><br></div><div>Issue 2: is the procedure well enough documented to allow replication, or will this result in a bunch of people poisoning themselves? Not her fault, but still a potential problem.</div><div><br></div><div>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."</div></div></div>