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> Even if you want the experimental treatment, you cannot get it. Killing someone in an attempt to help is deeply unethical, while merely letting them die is not your fault. This is sometimes also known as the Copenhagen interpretation of Ethics.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the "Copenhagen interpretation of Ethics". I've thought many times about this problem, didn't know it had a name.

Comes to mind Dante Alighieri: "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."



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