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jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is very hypothetical. You could make the same argument about any experimental medical intervention in a child’s life. If I had the choice of being born with HIV or an experimental procedure with some (how much?) chance of risk, I’d chose the procedure.

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Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You could make the same argument about any experimental medical intervention in a child’s life

Yup, and there’s even ethics review boards convened solely to analyze that argument with the particulars of a case and rule whether the treatment is okay to go ahead. This guy played god without approval from this review process and deserved the time served.

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- jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Okay, I do relate to this argument. It’s the ethics review board’s decision and not his to make. Fair enough. In this case, I am disappointed by the ethic review board’s decision, which is why I sympathize with the doctor.
  
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- allo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  would he, as the God curing the hiv, be more or less moral than the God giving the hiv?
  
  The power to enact change is not a 100% bad thing. It only looks that way because of rampant corruption. There are good people in the world too. It is the good people who should be powerful. Keep in mind he is not developing something for a monsanto patent thicket; he is curing diseases without it being tied to nor profiting big pharma
  
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