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Re:Monkey MindPong by bitcharmer on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:57AM (#26747458)
This is how progress is made. Similarly, people in DaVinci's times were sickened by his autopsies but that doesn't mean there was something wrong about them.
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Re:Monkey MindPong by bufferout on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:53AM (#26748196)
To counter with an extreme example: plenty of medical progress was made via Nazi and Japanese experiments on live subjects during the second world war. So no, categorically the ends does not always justify the means.
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Re:Monkey MindPong by layoutIfNeeded on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:46AM (#26748849)
>plenty of medical progress was made via Nazi and Japanese experiments on live subjects during the second world war

[citation needed]

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Re:Monkey MindPong by wizzwizz4 on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:04AM (#26750738)
Plenty of unethical experiments. What was learnt? What progress was made?
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