robertonoa

While in this collective pipe dream, why not just make it a felony to have unauthorized possession or transmission of this data, make sentencing gravity based on attributes like unsecured, breached, willfully sold, etc?

Not a great analogy, as not many people use chemotherapy agents daily, for life (unless you die while taking them, of course) and those can have crippling side effects that are way worse in some populations than simply dying from cancer.

> stealth side effect that takes 30 years to manifest

Heavy metal toxicity, cirrhosis, lung cancer, persistent infections that lead to cancer (HPV, Hep B, etc), silicosis, COPD, skin cancer, all sorts of diseases result from cumulative exposure.

> (why oh why do I suspect that semaglutide skepticism correlates heavily with the “respect my freedom to not wear a mask” crowd…)

Can you approach skepticism without ad hominem attacks?

> a fine of $1000 paid to each individual per leak would be a good starting point

They would just fold the company and start another? Most data brokers do not have 3 trillion dollars.

Can you perform cost benefit analysis in the long term on a drug that has only been used in the short term?

Too simple to state no objective meaning. Individually, agents can craft meanings to their existence, and collectively agents can agree on meanings to their existence. It happens in real life. I mean, even simplistically human life has meaning beyond nothing. You encapsulate other life within you. Your life necessitates that other life. Your cells replicate, the bacteria and viruses within you do so as well. Your interactions with ecosystem you are part of have chaotic effects that are hard to predict. In some ways, existence necessitates "meaning".

Something to consider: subjective good isn't objectively good, and objectively good things are hard to locate.