Are Ethics Immoral?

[PhilosophicalBluster]

Basically none of this can be proven, since it's all hypothetical, but here we go.

Consider:
Cloning humans is against ethics.
Testing experimental disease treatments on humans is against ethics.
If we cloned humans and tested disease treatments on them, cures for many diseases could be found and implemented.
As a result of these cures or treatments, more lives could be saved than those lost by the clones.

I am not in any way suggesting we should clone people and give them diseases so we can test cures on them, but here is my point. Usually ethics tries to center on the greater good, right? But in this scenario the greater good is immoral. Talk about it.

 

[Nihilismus]

As morality is relative, this proposition is invalid from the beginning.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

Relative to what, in this situation?

 

[Nihilismus]

Anything from the individual to the society. There is no objective "ethics" that states those things are definitely wrong.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

Well cloning undeniably clashes with somebody's ethics, even though that somebody may not be you. I believe the Christian argument goes something like 'This is not how G-d intended us to reproduce' or something. This is a Christian forum. I'm asking the base of Christian ethics.

 

[Nihilismus]

Again, Christians disagree all the time. Religious interpretation is as subjective as any other ethical position.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

But you've come to realize that fact, which is why I'd rather debate this with a Christian than a Nihilist. Christians seem to think that there is only one way to do any one thing. I'd be interested to hear their viewpoints.

 

[Axioma]

I was not aware that cloning humans was unethical. I mean, yes, it's unethical now because our cloning procedures are pretty bad and there is a good chance something would go horribly wrong, but I'm not aware of any ethical problems with cloning people if the cloning process itself is proven to be safe.

 

[cantata]

The OP is, at worst, utterly misguided, and at best, a contradiction in terms.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

The OP is, at worst, utterly misguided, and at best, a contradiction in terms.

I disagree. At best, confusing. Thanks for trying to take the whole paradox theme here literally. Really. Thank you.

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