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"During World War II, Nazi scientists used concentration camp inmates as subjects in several experiments. For example, to learn more about how long downed German pilots could survive immersion in the frigid North Sea, 300 camp inmates were forced to suffer submersion in tanks of ice cold water for long periods of time. Many of them died during the experiments. Discuss how a utilitarian would most likely respond to the question of whether the medical data from these experiments--data that could potentially save future lives--should now be available to scientists and physicians? Explain your answer to this question thoroughly drawing upon what you know about utilitarianism. Do you agree with the Utilitarian response to this question? Explain why or why not."
Explanation / Answer
According to the utilitarianism, the utility is more important than humanity so that the experiments in concentration camps maximize the utility so that we can define it as the normative ethics. The experiments done in concentration camps were not for whole world therefore we cannot take it as the utilitarianism.
The experiments done by Nazis do not follow the utilitarian approach and also violate the humanity so that we cannot take ask them right. These experiment could be possible without violate human rights and lives. Nazis were trying to make their work ethical through the use of utilitarian approach while they had done serious violation against human rights.
I don’t think that utilitarianism make them right while they had done war crimes.
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