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I recently came up with this question and I am undecided on how to judge.
Okay assume the hypothetical scenario that an evil force carried out lots of medical experiments on a group of people: the victims. Ofc, mostly died under these conditions or still carry severe disabilities and ofc the victims were forced to the experiments.
After several months/years of torture the evil people came up with a new medicine that could cure a widespread, severe and painful lethal illness (AIDS, cancer, or maybe something affecting half of the population...).
So after they found the cure, your forces moved in, killed all the evil guys and rescued the remaining victims. They also retrieved the documents regarding the medicine and now you don't know what to do with them. All the evil guys are dead but still the value of these documents is pretty clear without understanding it.
Use, Give away or Destroy are the options you have, if you store them somewhere and never look at them, that's like destroying, if you store them somewhere and look at them at some time in the future that's the same as using (even after another cure has been found and you just want to compare results).
You have to decide if you should keep the research and profit from the evilness of someone elses terror, getting your hands involved in their evilness for yourself and in turn victimize the evil guys, who would be perceived as having sacrificed themselves upon trying to find a cure that would heal more people than would suffer.
Wether you should destroy the cure and lose a precious moment to relieve the world of a great burden for several years to come. Since a cure exists it will be found at some time in the future.
Or to not being able to handle it and give away the document of power, but to home?
To further the difficulty of the descision in the scenario you can assume two positions by the remaining victims: a.) they want the documents burned or b.) they want to create a big corporation out of the documents and sell the medicine for exorbitant prices to the social upperclass only
or a mixture of a.) and b.) equally distributed among the victims
What would be the most ethical thing to do in this case? What if there are no victim survivors and the information has been obtained after the last victim died?
Would your judgment change wether the victims being tortured and killed is unified and has a common ideology or is loosely affiliated so that the remaining victims could possibly not judge for those who died?
My argumentation would be a kind of purifying approach and in any case taking any rights the victims would want to hold. I'd say use
Ofc, I'd want to aid mankind with it creating a non-profit organizations, but let's just assume there aren't enough resources for this and in the end someone always profits.
Final note: please keep any real-world associations for yourself!
edit: a moderator please make a poll out of this? (add a banana option as well)
Okay assume the hypothetical scenario that an evil force carried out lots of medical experiments on a group of people: the victims. Ofc, mostly died under these conditions or still carry severe disabilities and ofc the victims were forced to the experiments.
After several months/years of torture the evil people came up with a new medicine that could cure a widespread, severe and painful lethal illness (AIDS, cancer, or maybe something affecting half of the population...).
So after they found the cure, your forces moved in, killed all the evil guys and rescued the remaining victims. They also retrieved the documents regarding the medicine and now you don't know what to do with them. All the evil guys are dead but still the value of these documents is pretty clear without understanding it.
Use, Give away or Destroy are the options you have, if you store them somewhere and never look at them, that's like destroying, if you store them somewhere and look at them at some time in the future that's the same as using (even after another cure has been found and you just want to compare results).
You have to decide if you should keep the research and profit from the evilness of someone elses terror, getting your hands involved in their evilness for yourself and in turn victimize the evil guys, who would be perceived as having sacrificed themselves upon trying to find a cure that would heal more people than would suffer.
Wether you should destroy the cure and lose a precious moment to relieve the world of a great burden for several years to come. Since a cure exists it will be found at some time in the future.
Or to not being able to handle it and give away the document of power, but to home?
To further the difficulty of the descision in the scenario you can assume two positions by the remaining victims: a.) they want the documents burned or b.) they want to create a big corporation out of the documents and sell the medicine for exorbitant prices to the social upperclass only
or a mixture of a.) and b.) equally distributed among the victims
What would be the most ethical thing to do in this case? What if there are no victim survivors and the information has been obtained after the last victim died?
Would your judgment change wether the victims being tortured and killed is unified and has a common ideology or is loosely affiliated so that the remaining victims could possibly not judge for those who died?
My argumentation would be a kind of purifying approach and in any case taking any rights the victims would want to hold. I'd say use
Ofc, I'd want to aid mankind with it creating a non-profit organizations, but let's just assume there aren't enough resources for this and in the end someone always profits.
Final note: please keep any real-world associations for yourself!
edit: a moderator please make a poll out of this? (add a banana option as well)
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