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Originally Posted by Hom3r
Without some "unethical" thing being done, a lot of lives will be saved.
Look at Burke and Hare, if they hadn't had done what they did, the medicine wouldn't have been as good as it is to day.
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Consequently their actions also brought about criticism of the then Government's complicity whereby the Lancet journal announced
"Government is already in a great degree, responsible for the crime which it has fostered by its negligence, and even encouraged by a system of forbearance".
The analogy you present is too similar in that those charged with the ethical guardianship of the sanctity of life have, in both circumstances, criticised actions which undermined their very own integrity.
Not something to be either proud or tolerant of.