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A 3 page exploration of the suggestion that alien beings should be allowed to abduct involuntary
human subjects for lethal medical experiments provided that they give humanity a cure for all current and future viral diseases (including AIDS).
The author utilizes John Stewart Mill's utilitarian approach to first validate and then to discredit the logic of this approach. Bibliography lists
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Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPalienA.rtf
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The suggestion that alien beings should be allowed to abduct involuntary human subjects for lethal medical experiments provided that they give humanity a cure for all current
and future viral diseases (including AIDS) might seem preposterous on the surface. The suggestion is replete with deep philosophical underpinnings, however. The trade-off of the lives of a
few individuals could, in fact, be justified from a strictly utilitarian perspective! What is a few lives in relation to the millions that would be saved by such a
trade? To investigate this suggestion further we must first turn to the work of John Stewart Mill, the philosopher that formulated the utilitarian theory. Next, of course, we
must carefully explore the value of life. Most importantly, we must not limit our investigations to the surface of the matter. We must dig deeply into the issues
and recognize that one life is not just valuable from an esoteric standpoint but also from the standpoint of the potential that it itself holds for mankind!
Mills theory is one which revolves around the concept of "greater good". His teleological approach would holds that terms such as "good" and "right"
are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the largest number of people. Obviously the trade-off mentioned above would result in great benefit to
mankind as a whole. It would come, however, at great cost to the individuals that were abducted for utilization in the alien experiments! As a society, however, we
often trade off individual welfare for group welfare. Consider our criminal justice system, for example. We commonly imprison individuals and sometimes even kill them as a means of
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