pzrite opened this issue on Mar 02, 2002 ยท 131 posts
Legume posted Sun, 03 March 2002 at 5:16 PM
Kieraw, I'm familiar with that particular controversy, and I agree, It's STUPID AS HELL. The very idea that medical knowledge that could be used to save the living goes unused in deference to the dead is preposterous. Here's an interesting hypothetical situation for you. Let's say that "Saul Greenberg" was killed by Josef Mengele, and that Mengele discovered something during his experiments that would cure a horrible and painful disease, one with anal chancres and eyeball tumors, let's call it "Leguminosis". Because it was discovered by Mengele, the medical community isn't allowed to use the information, because it's "wrong". Later Saul Greenberg's grand-daughter "Dorothy" develops a terrible case of Leguminosis, and, because of the medical establishment's inability to use the research of Dr.Mengele, she is forced to live out the next 70 years in unspeakable agony. Using that research to end poor little Dorothy's pain would be WRONG, wouldn't it?