Tough ethical question

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Kidicious
So he's an amoral *******, not an immoral *******?

As amoral as any weapons designer, I suppose. But as I said, his chief interest was space, not war.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
Anyway I am surprised that nobody suggested to burn the work done by a force with evil intentions and reached with evil methods. Is it entirely unimportant _how_ something was created?

I wasn't saying ends justisfy means. That's not the case here, though. It's the bad guys who did all this, and what was done was done. Destroying the results help nobody.

The only compensation for those who died in the process is the results get used to help this world.

Originally posted by Atahualpa
Because then I might go out as scientist and use lots of unethetical methods, victimize myself in order to serve a greater purpose: the development of humanity.

How would you victimise yourself if you use "evil methods?"

Originally posted by Atahualpa
In the end I can be sure that my work will be used and I have done right. I can choose a wrong path and still do the right thing. All the victims that died for it, will be shrugged off as collateral damage.

Interesting point of view, no?

As I said, hypothetical situations are silly.

[Atahualpa]

How would you victimise yourself if you use "evil methods?"

The way of my thinking would be: I creat this medicine that in the process of creation kills 1000 people but then heals millions. Because I killed the people, I will get arrested and maybe killed. That's my sacrifice.

You basically identify with the rest of the people you kill for getting the information. You see yourself as victim, because in the end you'll get burned and only your work will be allowed to live on.

[Flip McWho]

Yes, but you forget that the state would of pulled that medicine off the market long before it killed the necessary 1000. So you'd be dead and so would so many people that died before it got pulled, and your name will live on in eternity as the guy who invented it, nevermind about the eventual good side effects.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
The way of my thinking would be: I creat this medicine that in the process of creation kills 1000 people but then heals millions. Because I killed the people, I will get arrested and maybe killed. That's my sacrifice.

The Nazis and the Japanese conducted medical experiments on humans because they were inherently evil. If you are evil though why would you care? If you aren't evil you won't conduct such experiments.

Originally posted by Atahualpa
You basically identify with the rest of the people you kill for getting the information. You see yourself as victim, because in the end you'll get burned and only your work will be allowed to live on.

Doing something like this require a lot of resources, such as loads of goons/henchmen/lackeys, seret bases, etc. You need to send the goons out to kidnap people (probably homeless folk and the like) and move them to your bases.

If you have the required resouces, you probably won't need to use "evil methods."

[Atahualpa]

well okay hypothetical situations are silly