(October 27, 2011 at 10:23 pm)Epimethean Wrote: That said, I am and will likely remain a proponent of the death penalty for multiple offense rapists and murderers. There is no reason to keep them around. Elsewhere, you have argued against those who sympathize with animals used for scientific tests. Here, I might suggest that, in my eyes, these violent offenders should be used for such tests (or euthanized), as they are less valuable in the world than the animals they might replace, and potentially more so to scientific research.
Thank you for that insight. To respond to the above, though, I'd point out that the Nazi's used people they deemed 'non human' for medical experiments, slave labor and eventually, lampshades.
Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army conducted medical experiments on prisoners, also deemed 'unhuman' and undeserving on any special status other than cattle.
Nazi human experimentation led to many advances, one of note is research into hypothermia and exposure. Many Nazi scientists were released and even employed by Soviet and US interests post war, irrespective of their responsibility. Werner Von Braun knew about slave labor constructing V-2's and still led V-2 as a research program, consequences to ethics be damned.
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
The second you start treating humans as less than human, you invite fascists who offer to take out the (human) garbage.
This is why I view you and those who make similar arguments to you as fascist collaborators -- because you speak to the puritanical reactionary inside some, if not all, of us; the same reactionary that yearns for the "good old days" and the like.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
