That is all terrible and hopefully will never be repeated but I would not compare medical experiments done by Nazis on good people who did not ask or deserve it with those done to criminals who would need to give their consent to it. I am not saying this is the perfect solution but in my opinion is better when compared to killing a criminal and using him or rehabilitating him in any way.
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Your post certainly made me think more about this issue. A couple of weeks ago, for some reason I started thinking a lot about a particularly nasty murder case where the murderer was convicted. I was thinking about the people who will have to deal with him in prison. If I was in that position I would just want to stab him in the guts. I think these people must be traumatised just from having to interact with this man. And I don't really know what the answer is in cases like this. I just worry that if medical experimentation was allowed in such cases, it could be extended to be allowed for criminals who have committed much lesser crimes. Where would the line be drawn, and who would draw it? I don't like animal experimentation either, yet so much scientific research is done using rats. It's such a difficult moral dilemma.