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Old 01-03-2003, 08:01 AM   #11
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Old 01-03-2003, 08:13 AM   #12
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Would it be advisable, then, to randomly select persons from the criminal, insane, and feebleminded classes of people? I mean, we do not want great minds to be randomly selected. They simply have done too much for mankind.
Ah! But now you're no longer doing random selection...you are selecting based on bais and have manged to dig yourself into quite a hole. Try this slight modification of your statement:
Would it be advisable, then, to randomly select persons of the Jewish faith? I mean, we do not want great Aryan minds to be randomly selected. They simply have done too much for mankind.

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Old 01-04-2003, 09:52 AM   #13
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Only because there was a racial bias. If random people were selected, I ask you, what is the problem? It is for scientific research -- for the good of mankind! I do believe that you cannot seriously maintain your position if it were selected randomly, with no racial bias. And what of non-human animals? Are you seriously telling me that it is wrong to conduct experiments upon non-human animals when the knowledge obtained by such means is beneficial to makind?
WTF are you talking about? The Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners were not ethically wrong simply because of the population that was experimented upon, but because they were forced upon innocent people. I guess we should expect such tripe from someone calling themselves Totalitarianist.
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