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It used to be that medical "ethics" precluded actively killing someone. That's a religious legacy that more and more countries are coming to recognize is wrong. Fundamentally, this reduces to whether quality of life can be negative.

If quality of life can be negative then there will be cases where the humane act is to provide someone with a comfortable death.

And my point about nuclear power is that excessive regulation actually is counterproductive at maximizing human benefit.




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