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we-are-dread-commando:wearebloodhunter:we-are-dread-commando:wearebloodhunter:mindblowingfactz:In the early 1900s, a group of U.S. government scientists started a private dinner club, in which they only ate poisonous food. They documented their illnesses in order to convince Congress to pass food safety laws. They were called “The Poison Squad.” sourceimage via esquireChaotic GoodHardly. That’s more Lawful Good. Convincing a government to pass laws is, well, Lawful. Sacrificing their own health to do it is Good. A Chaotic Good poison squad would test for poison and then, I don’t know, hand out flyers to inform the public. They would then sabotage the food processing factories responsible (taking care not to kill anyone in the process).It was meant to be chaotic in terms of ethics. That’s not an ethical way to do testing of these products and so by the way of ethical “laws” they are chaotic. I get what you mean though. By the laws of the land they are lawfulHmm. Very good point, I was neglecting ethical and societal laws and focusing on the legal sense. But still, they’re testing them on themselves, right? They’re all voluntarily subjecting themselves to the tests? At that point we get into crazy stuff like what it means to be ethical. @we-are-lawyer @wearepaladin would you care to weigh in on this? No longer from a silly alignment perspective, but in the sense of is their behavior ethical?I would call it ethical. They’re not subjecting anyone else but themselves to the risk of food poisoning, with documenting their experiences for the sake of preventing it happen to people who were unaware of the risk and therefore unlikely to have taken precautions or have a medical professional on hand if things went terribly wrong. Their leader, Dr. Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Agricultural department, would have the additives (IE poison) added in larger increments per meal, stopping when people would start to get sick. Imagine if the gradual testing of how much was safely consumable was ignored, and some poor family ate a cup of something in their meals that would make one of these fellows violently sick?So I would say it was both ethical in intention and practice, the intent to save lives, and in practice because they were all volunteers and steps were taken to ensure those consuming the additives in their meals stopped eating at the first sign of danger.As a side note, who is @wearebloodhunter and are they nonofficial or otherwise, because I don’t recall vetting them. -- source link
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