Originally posted by hobbes@20 January 2004 - 21:18
Out of my league here, but you may want to consider "utilitarian philosphers". These folks believed that "rightness" was determined by outcome. What could bring happines to the most people.

You could justify human experiments to better understand disease, as the experiments, although cruel to the subjects, would provide information that would bring a greater happiness to a society.

This is in essense an "ends justifying the means" philosophy.

My dusty memories of a class in which people created chaos out of order.
ive been reading up all today and they've been mentioned many times, ill be sure to check them out some more. Thanks.