Nicholas Schiefer on Twitter: "@voretaq7 Sure, but I see these as a primarily (exclusively?) moral questions, rather than regulatory ones. My moral intuition is pretty clear on this, in the context of COVID vaccines. No worries if you'd rather not get into your own moral philosophy; I realize that's pretty invasive." / Twitter

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I think this is the crux: I think that the FDA's balance is bad. On a personal level, it makes me worse off. At a societal level it violates my moral convictions. Given those values, I'm upset because the FDA is, in my view, causing a lot of harm by applying its standard.

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Oh, so we disagree less than I thought! My preferred regulatory regime would indeed create finer grained distinctions and rely more on individuals and their doctors to make treatment decisions.

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I'm curious: how much worse it is for someone to choose to take a medicine that harms them (assuming they were given the available context), vs. for someone to be harmed by not having access to medicine because it isn't approved? Personally, I see the latter harm as greater.

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Sure, but I see these as a primarily (exclusively?) moral questions, rather than regulatory ones. My moral intuition is pretty clear on this, in the context of COVID vaccines. No worries if you'd rather not get into your own moral philosophy; I realize that's pretty invasive.

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