Ep. 87: The Common Good and COVID-19 Vaccines
Bioethics on Air
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Marketing Is Not Appropriate for Medical Decisions
Marketing is not appropriate for informed consent to medical decisions. It's literally an incentive with the very purpose of making me decide something i otherwise wouldn't have decided without thatincentive, you know. Both fear and love can be turned into good aims when properly channelled. The problem is when we don't actually provide informational context to say, what is it that i'm even deciding like, what are the facts about the vaccin? And if i don't have those things clear, i'm in a muddled, confusing world of information that i can't figure out. In most cases, how does a child actually understand their self-sacrificial taking on certain risks in order
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