I wonder if I'm the only one here who thinks this probably a good thing, from a utilitarian ethics.
My calculation goes like this: Most of the things we get up-in-arms today about aren't that bad numerically. When those come our science is the ONLY thing that can save us (be that mars, be that a preventative technology, be a genetic adaptation).
I think if we handwring over the ethics of individual testing for decades on end, all-the-while millions die because of the technology we didn't build then, by a utilitarian ethics at least, that was a bad call.
My calculation goes like this: Most of the things we get up-in-arms today about aren't that bad numerically. When those come our science is the ONLY thing that can save us (be that mars, be that a preventative technology, be a genetic adaptation).
I think if we handwring over the ethics of individual testing for decades on end, all-the-while millions die because of the technology we didn't build then, by a utilitarian ethics at least, that was a bad call.