Medical ethics is a bit tricky. It's like the trolley problem on steroids.
I mean pulling the lever so only 1 person has to die instead of 5 seems simple until suddenly you're harvesting a healthy person's organs to save 5 others.
Heck we've seen it in action in covid-19 research. How much more useful data could we have had if we infected people deliberately? (or at least didn't just wait for them to get infected by chance) Sure some tens of people, maybe hundreds could have died as a result, but what is hundreds for a disease that kills millions? Besides, getting infected isn't even a death sentence, we've sent plenty of soldiers towards way worse odds.
I mean pulling the lever so only 1 person has to die instead of 5 seems simple until suddenly you're harvesting a healthy person's organs to save 5 others.
Heck we've seen it in action in covid-19 research. How much more useful data could we have had if we infected people deliberately? (or at least didn't just wait for them to get infected by chance) Sure some tens of people, maybe hundreds could have died as a result, but what is hundreds for a disease that kills millions? Besides, getting infected isn't even a death sentence, we've sent plenty of soldiers towards way worse odds.