PHL380H1 Chapter Ridley: PHL380H1 Chapter : Ill gotten gains- Aaron Ridley
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These experiments can be ethically offensive or acceptable: informed and mature vs uninformed or involuntary, even if both inflict minimal harm. Argument in favor: information is always ethically neutral regardless of how it was obtained: these arguments are always double edged, they take place given that the unethical experiments have already occurred. Intuitions opposing this: using the results would be disrespectful to the victims of the experiment. It would condone the unethical methods used in the experiment. It would encourage others to use such methods. The second is not, usually not the case, condoning involves more than just taking advantage of something. It would make the performance of similar experiments more likely in medicine: there is not a causal, but a conceptual connection between use of results and likelihood of further experiments. To deter them, you need to give them a motive they can recognize: threaten the ends of his activities (which provide his justification)
