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Are some people better off not being cured?

Asked by Pandora (32213points) February 9th, 2012

With everyday medical cures being discovered everyday, is it better in some cases to leave it alone?
Lets take a person who was in a coma. They wake up to find everyone ever important to them is gone and they are older and their body is a wreck and they will still need to depend on services to get around.
But what if they were a violent crimminal and spent most of their lives in jail and then a cure comes a long and they are no longer a crimminal but no one on the outside can forgive them for past crimes.
Or you’ve been locked in a deep depression for years and your now 90 and the last time you remember feeling happy was when you were 20. Its like waking up from a deep sleep to find your in a different world and you were robbed of joy for years.
So in these cases, would the end justify the means. Or is it better to never know what you missed?

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