Originally Posted by DocFrance
The utilitarian argument that "the good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one" has one glaring flaw - it assumes that all people are not unique, and that one life can easily be traded for another.
The only way human experimentation can be moral is if the people who are being experimented on volunteer. Many people agree to "donate their body to science" upon death, and many more take part in scientific experiements - experiments that won't have a detrimental effect on themselves, of course.
Out of curiosity, how do those of you who think human experimenting is bad think about stem cell research?