unethical experimentation for scientific progress theme
We are made to ponder whether unethical practices can be justified if they are likely to further scientific progress. Would it, for example, be alright to risk the life of a convicted felon in order to test out a device that might bring us clean energy?
8 total · 3 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Cloned (1997) | major | Norwest Bio secretly engaged in pioneering work in human cloning in violation of an international ban on the practice. |
| movie: Doctor Bloods Coffin (1961) | major | Is is okay for Dr. Robert Blood to take the lives of people he deems worthless so that he can perfect his heart transplantation technique, thus allowing great men to live on and advance civilization? |
| movie: Je taime je taime (1968) | major | A team of scientists used Claude as a guinea pig in a risky experiment in time travel. |
| ent3x15 | minor | The alien said that he was a prisoner and was forced to volunteer as a test subject in being sent to another dimension. |
| movie: Frankenstein (2025) | minor | Victor's peers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh the were horrified he demonstrated to them a macabre reanimated head and torso. |
| movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) | minor | Kirk's son David knowingly used dangerous proto-matter to make the Genesis effect work with dire consequences. |
| movie: The Incredible 2 Headed Transplant (1971) | minor | Dr. Roger Girard briefly mulled over whether or not he should graft the head of a clinically dead escaped mental patient onto the body of a mentally handicapped man, before agreeing to go ahead with the procedure at Dr. Ken Anderson's urging. |
| tz1959e4x05 | minor | Karl's wife questioned the ethics of raising their as yet unborn children to be telepathic, even though doing so might prove a great contribution to advancing civilization. |