The nazis discovered many medical advances and procedures but killed prisoners to find it. So did the Japs and many other countries. Even the US let hundreds of blacks suffer from VD just to follow its progress. Should we use this information or not because of the horrific way it was found. Do we give approval of these torture methods by accepting and using the results, or do we give thanks to the men, women and children who died and use this info so their deaths won't be in vain?
2007-01-29 08:39:40 · 5 answers · asked by Really, I'm Fine 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
that's tough to decide weather the end justifies the means. if we don't use the info then all those people died for nothing if we use that info we save other people and some people might think that means we support how it came to be. either way i say since we can't erase the past use that info save people and just make it clear that we don't believe the information was obtained in the right way but it won't waste it either. that's the best answer i can give you.
2007-01-29 08:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by ~*~AmethystMoonBeams~*~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the ends justify the means!
However I'd say if there is some risky experement that could kill the person why not use those on Death Row! If they die well who cares they were sentenced to die anyway! This would also save the tax payers money!
The plus side is that we could discover the cure for something that could save hundreds, thousadns, or millions of lives!
Given the large numbers in prison today why not use them to help society? It isn't as if they are any use to us as they are!
2007-01-29 08:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The information would have been found
(and in fact has been) in ways that did not dehumanize, torture, and kill.
The end does not always -- and perhaps not often -- justify the means.
2007-01-29 10:08:21 · answer #3 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so, if someine held a person, your mother for example, captive, with a gun to her head and 1000 people in a cage with nerve gas about to be released, who would you choose? most certainly the end justifies the means. the U.S. howevere much i don't like it, let those blacks die to follow its progress, AND LEARN HOW TO FIGHT THE DISEASE! if there is a cure to AIDS, then i'm sure that other people will feel the same way once it's procured.
2007-01-29 09:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by natethegreatprfct 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We honor those who died. Not to use the information would be a waste, even though we don't agree on how it was obtained.
2007-01-29 08:49:26 · answer #5 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋