“But I think it’s a bit arbitrary that freedom can be curtailed to forestall death from a threat in one hour’s time, or one day’s time, or one week’s time, but not in a few decade’s time (as would be attempted with the compulsory medical trial participation example).”
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“I don’t think randomly drafting people into medical experiments to benefit human health/medical knowledge would just help society. I think it helps all of us individuals at risk of being so drafted, provided it’s structured in such a way that our risk of disease and death ends up net lower than if human medical experimentation wasn’t being done in this way.
I’d think economists might look at our humoring of various “moral intuitions”/biases as a sort of luxury spending, or waste. There also might be a cost in terms of human life, health, etc. that could legitimately be described as morally horrific.
It goes to the problem of how people often think shooting and killing 3 people is much worse than fraud, corruption, or waste that wipes out hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth, although objectively that reduction in global wealth might mean a much greater negative impact on human life and health.”
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I think it’s worth looking into if waste from eww bias-derived moral intuitions on topics such as freedom actually result in social waste such that the net freedom for all humans is lower. For example, we all may be more likely to die as a result of failing to have randomized compulsory medical trials at this stage of human history. Thus, by not engaging in this temporary fix, are we reducing a lot more freedom 50 years from now.
The valuing of freedom now more than freedom later (if that’s what this is) is, parallels a classic bias of preferring less money now rather than more money later, beyond the advantages of Time Value of Money.
I’m interested in responses to these lines:
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“But I think it’s a bit arbitrary that freedom can be curtailed to forestall death from a threat in one hour’s time, or one day’s time, or one week’s time, but not in a few decade’s time (as would be attempted with the compulsory medical trial participation example).”
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“I don’t think randomly drafting people into medical experiments to benefit human health/medical knowledge would just help society. I think it helps all of us individuals at risk of being so drafted, provided it’s structured in such a way that our risk of disease and death ends up net lower than if human medical experimentation wasn’t being done in this way.
I’d think economists might look at our humoring of various “moral intuitions”/biases as a sort of luxury spending, or waste. There also might be a cost in terms of human life, health, etc. that could legitimately be described as morally horrific.
It goes to the problem of how people often think shooting and killing 3 people is much worse than fraud, corruption, or waste that wipes out hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth, although objectively that reduction in global wealth might mean a much greater negative impact on human life and health.”
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I think it’s worth looking into if waste from eww bias-derived moral intuitions on topics such as freedom actually result in social waste such that the net freedom for all humans is lower. For example, we all may be more likely to die as a result of failing to have randomized compulsory medical trials at this stage of human history. Thus, by not engaging in this temporary fix, are we reducing a lot more freedom 50 years from now.
The valuing of freedom now more than freedom later (if that’s what this is) is, parallels a classic bias of preferring less money now rather than more money later, beyond the advantages of Time Value of Money.