Comment by mmooss

> prevent terminally ill people from voluntarily experimenting on themselves to find a cure and further our understanding of disease

Those seem like a good starting point for standards: Is it voluntary? Are they of sound mind? Are they giving informed consent (to themselves)? Is the experiment likely to yield useful results?

There are many things you can't voluntarily do, such as experimenting with cures that involve opiods. Should we allow vulnerable, uninformed people to take dangerous drugs because they saw a YouTube video saying they would help? Try random gene editing?

The truth is, you probably could do those things and few would care unless you hurt someone else.

> using force

Yes, guns ablazing!