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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005
This was put into practice by the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele (angel of death) during ww2 on mainly Polish & Jew prisoners. During his crusade of creating the master race & perfect twins he experimented on thousands with the ice technique, of course not like now, he had no regards for human life.
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Josef Mengele and other forced human experimenters pose a interesting philosophical
problem.
There are some (J.Mengele not included) whose barbarous acts are likely to have
saved more lives then where used in the experiments. Clearly there is no moral
justification from this fact and that can lead us to the conclusion that:
"No price is too great to pay and no brutality too horrible to inflict if it can be justified
that the good will be so much more than the evil needed to impose it."
Is a poor moral standpoint.
However, this throws in to question countless contemporary and historical cases
where horrible brutalities have been inflicted upon people with the justification that
the good coming from the act will be greater than the evil.
-see: Hiroshima