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Post: 82643441_1 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:01:33 +0000
Posted: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:01:33 +0000

Are they?

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Post: 82643441_2 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:05:27 +0000
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That depends upon the system of morals behind it.

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Post: 82643441_3 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:05:29 +0000
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With informed consent, yes.

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Post: 82643441_4 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:30:37 +0000
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Is swinging an axe ethical?

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Post: 82643441_5 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:19:08 +0000
Posted: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:19:08 +0000

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With informed consent, yes.

This.

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Post: 82643441_6 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:33:35 +0000
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Are they?

Ethics are subjective.

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Post: 82643441_7 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:35:54 +0000
Posted: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:35:54 +0000

Out of all the countries in the world, we ban this. If people want to sell their body for science let them with consent and legal background checks being a must.

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Post: 82643441_8 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:37:31 +0000
Posted: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:37:31 +0000

Depends on the experiment.

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Post: 82643441_9 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:53:11 +0000
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Depends on the experiment.

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Some experiments are ethical even with only semi-informed consent; double blinds or psychological 'trick' experiments rely on the subject not being completely informed. But we have ethics boards for that instead. If people don't trust the ethics board, then they can refuse to participate, but that's bad for the data, so it's in the ethics board's interest to be very conservative and never violate that trust.

Things like drug trials do require significant informed consent.

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Post: 82643441_10 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:31:59 +0000
Posted: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:31:59 +0000

I'm sure we can just invade another country, test drugs on them after injecting them with a strain of a malady we have to deal with. No harm in killing those that are expendable, all for the good of Humanity.

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Post: 82643441_11 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:45:22 +0000
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That is literally what Nazi scientists did.

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Post: 82643441_12 created on Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:48:21 +0000
Posted: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:48:21 +0000

Blanket statement. Please specify.

A human experiment to find out what a particular country's favorite flavor of ice cream is will be much less harmful than say...