(December 21, 2017 at 10:46 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Unit 731 might be a better example; Around the time of World War II, Japan made quite a few medical breakthroughs, including discovery of the mechanism behind frostbite, and the day-to-day progression of Anthrax and bubonic plague. How did they do this? Human experimentation. Human experimentation that often involved things like vivisection of humans, people being raped and forcibly
infected with syphilis and (I did not believe this was real the first time I heard it) freezing one person's limbs and throwing scalding hot water (over 50 centigrade) on them so the skin and muscle fell off. They took the dehumanization inherent in such an enterprise to new levels, calling the human subjects Maruta, the Japanese word for “lumber,” because even treating those subjects (mostly Chinese POWs and their families, including three-month-old infants, though they became more diverse with WW2) like animals was considered unfair even to animals. Unit 731 seems to be less prone to fudging their data for the benefit of the Emperor than the Nazis, and yet, they did much the same thing, and quite a bit of it was even more fucked up than the Nazi experiments (no small feat.) But it still had an undeniable positive effect on medicine. If there’s ever a successful biological warfare attack on America (or whichever nation you live in,) if/when scientists find a way to restore things to normal, whatever solution they find WILL inevitably use Unit 731’s findings.
Both the Nazi's and the Japanese did horrible things, but without these actions being done we would of not advanced has quickly as we did. After WW2, a lot of health advancements came from the research conducted on human beings as well technology came to our lives. I do wish millions of people did not to die for us to work together, it's the sad truth about humanity though. This is tough matter to discusses though, it kind of goes along lines of abortions and evolution. Has far has altering history, I would of to say no it's a terrible practice. If we forgot that we had Captain Cheto has a President of the U.S, it would be wrong to erase him from history.
