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Yes, good point. These people are desperate, so we should let a wildly irresponsible company, who during animal testing had identified the thread retraction issue and not fixed it, we should let them experiment on desperate humans because fuck them I guess.
Yeah the guy was able to do something cool for a while, but now he's quickly getting back to where he was and with bonus bits of metal all over his brain and no way to fix the problem.
I don't know if that's a trade he or anyone would have made going in.
They need to stop messing around with this Musk "fail fast" approach, that's not acceptable in medicine. You can't speed up your research by endangering the most desperate people in society.
They tested on animals, identifying the retraction issue... Then did nothing and installed it into a human anyway.
In your example it'd be shampoo that chemically burns pig scalps that is pushed to market for humans anyway.
Stop being an apologist and think about what it means to have billionaires treating desperate people as guinea pigs for invasive technology testing.
Look, at this point it's just an agree to disagree thing. You think it's ok for companies to do irreversible operations as long as subjects are desperate enough to consent. Others think that's abusive. There's obviously no changing your mind. That's ok, just move on.
And no. If you've spent any amount of time here then you know that a ton of people here are also against bezos and pretty much every other billionaires out there.
And for what it's worth, I do see your point. And I'd probably be inclined to agree. But at the same time, I do see the fact that it's morally questionable