Comment on [Link] Forty Days

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:58:50 GMT

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.

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