Nazi Ethics Debate

Nazi Ethics Debate “In the interest of...saving lives, is it acceptable to make use of data collected through mutilation, torture, and death” (Campbell, 16)? That is the question which has been rearing its head in scientific research since the end of World War II. As man has sought to quench his thirst for knowledge, lines of ethicality have been drawn to preserve the integrity of science, and provide a framework from which man can improve …

…themselves in the grasp of horrific experimenters. It must be understood that the Nazis were human, their experiments had goals, and they sought knowledge much like scholars of the present. Therefore instead of censoring and debating, maybe, “We should make an effort to stop using the experience of Nazism as a metaphor for ‘The Cosmic Evil’ and instead try to read it like a warning label on a bottle under our own kitchen sinks” (Crum, 31).