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Nothing Human; My Issue, what do you think?
Topic Started: Apr 8 2006, 11:00 PM (788 Views)
SevenPMS
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So in the episode nothing human be'lanna gets attacked by a non-humanoid life form that is living of her systems. The doctor creates a holgram of a cardassian who had torchoured and killed bejorans to cure a virus and advance medical science...

Now all the crew memebers wanted the doc to not use the program to treat be'lanna because they didn't want to benifit from his research of torturing and killing people

Now my issue is that if you where one of those people that was tortured for medical science wouldn't you want them to at least use the information they gathered from your death, so that your suffering and death wasn't in vain. That is how I feel, if I had to be unwillingly tortured and killed then I would want it to be for a good reason. Yeah the cardasian is an asshole but ignoring what he learned from the dead people would only make their deaths useless.

What does everyone else think?
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DamarLives
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Cardassian's would not do that. Wea re nice people.

Honestly, a very good concept for an episode.
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CroBob
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Knowledge is knowledge regardless it's source. Aquiring knowledge through evil acts does not make the knowledge itself evil. Fucking duh.
 
JohnFourtyTwo
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It was a good attempt to parallel all the medical research learned in WWII that was conducted by the butchery of the Germans and Japanese.
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SevenPMS
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JohnFourtyTwo
Apr 8 2006, 11:08 PM
It was a good attempt to parallel all the medical research learned in WWII that was conducted by the butchery of the Germans and Japanese.

I agree, but I don't think we threw away all of the research that the nazis did just because of how it was obtained, correct me if I am wrong
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JohnFourtyTwo
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SevenPMS
Apr 9 2006, 12:24 AM
I agree, but I don't think we threw away all of the research that the nazis did just because of how it was obtained, correct me if I am wrong

No we didn't throw away that research. What the Germans and Japanese did was wrong but it gave medical research valuable information they would not have ever gotten ethically.
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Stigmata
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I can see how using such information would perhaps validate the methods used to acquire it, which is of course unacceptable.
 
CroBob
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Stigmata
Apr 9 2006, 06:45 AM
I can see how using such information would perhaps validate the methods used to acquire it, which is of course unacceptable.

No it wouldn't!
 
AdmiralPatrick
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I put this episode in the same category as 'Human Error.'

Fascinating premise, awful execution.
 
MeliKoritsi
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If I died a guinea pig at the hands of some evil doctor, I would not want any research done on me to be in vain. I would want that information to be used to help other people.
 
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