Lokarin posted...Rules:
-Torture is ethically wrong in this context
-Someone tortured anyway and gained information
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Is it ethical to use that information?
Hypothetical example: German scientists Mengele/Heim did absolutely horrid experiments during WW2, but suppose their torturous experimentation found a cure for cancer/malaria/whatever
Is it ethical to use such cure?
On the one hand, you don't want to validate torture - but on the other hand, what's done is done why waste what you've gained?
Sure, it is ethically right to use the information. Now, is the information accurate? That's a bigger issue, since torture will often result in people just saying whatever in order to get you to stop torturing.
But if the torture is already done, and the information is already given, if you ask me, it would be unethical to NOT use the information. I mean really, you're just going to torture someone and then not act on any information? That's exceptionally cruel.
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