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Comment author: Azathoth123 30 September 2014 12:58:50AM *  9 points [-]

This kind of costless analysis is especially beloved by medicine and health professionals, whose only measure of value is health (e.g. their "quality of life" measure is essentially just health integrated over lifespan). I would have hoped rationalists would better recognise the complexity of human value.

Yes, and the people who already have HIV don't have a long expected lifespan. Note that the suggestion was based on existing procedures for other STDs and those were anywhere near as lethal.

The fact that the quarantine is compulsory ought to give the game away that it's not in the interests of the HIV sufferers.

It's not in the interest of the people who already have HIV, it is in the interest of the people who might get it.

Comment author: pragmatist 01 October 2014 11:22:04AM 4 points [-]

Yes, and the people who already have HIV don't have a long expected lifespan.

This was the case in the 80s and 90s, but it is no longer true. In the United States, if you are diagnosed early and consistently receive antiretroviral therapy, your expected lifespan is the same as the population average.

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