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Originally Posted by cyth
I just love how confident people are in saying there are "evil" scientists out there, almost as if they met them.
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And I just love how confident some people are in getting worked up over a fictional depiction of "evil" scientists, as though scientists were inherently morally superior to the rest of us.
Would people get this worked up over politicians being portrayed like this? Or police officers? Or soldiers? Or businessmen? Or lawyers?
There's plenty of villainous and/or evil-seeming characters in fiction that fall in one or more of the above professions. So what makes scientists so special that they deserve the level of defense that you and others have brought to this thread? Honestly, it's like some of you think that scientists are just flat-out better human beings than the rest of us and are somehow incapable of evil.
No. They're just humans just like the rest of us. They're no less capable of making moral compromises than the rest of us are.
As for your "world of moral and legal questions", what do you think of warrantless wiretapping? What do you think of the USA PATRIOT Act? There's a lot of "moral and legal questions" that get broken or ignored or "reinterpreted" when "national security" is involved. If America does this, then why can't Japan?
Nao's brother was harshly experimented on because they saw potential national security benefits to learning more about his powers and tapping into them to do things like signal jamming. However morally upsetting this may be, it still makes all the practical sense in the world, and it's hardly out of line with the sort of very ethically questionable things that are frequently done in the name of "national security".