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Does performing an unethical experiment make you a bad person if you used a completely consenting participate? Secondly if most of the experiments you think up are "Unethical" does that mean you are really just a bad person? If its in the interest of science? btw none would really be illegal just not very ethical. IIN?
I have had these thoughts too!
I'm really interested in the human might and how it reacts to different thing.
I'd however say that you aren't a bad person if you only wish to use consenting participants.
It is only bad in that it would create harm to participant. Not anything major though. Not like cutting or stuff does any real damage. Maybe like a smack. Which even if the participant agrees if it creates harm its considered unethical.
Here is an unethical test a group did: Another test they did with a few people. They made a large group of people on one side and said "Shock" these people. The people on the other end screamed but were not really being shocked. That is considered unethical since the persons turning the switch did not know they were not really shocking anyone. They were not aware of the experiment but if they were it probobly would have messed up the experiment. See no one got hurt but it was still considered unethical and this was not my experiment I think a school did it.
So that experiment was unethical. Yet no one was really harmed.
I wouldn't judge you to be a bad person for wanting to perform such experiments.
I don't know exactly how you are using the word 'unethical', whether it is meant to mean wrong/worthy of condemnation. The first experiment is not something I would deem unethical/wrong, even though it would involve something that would normally be wrong (smacking), since the participant has agreed to it.
It should be considered, that an experiment may have unforeseen consequences.
Well I looked up what is unethical and it had like 7 things posted. Two I noticed were "The participants did not know they were in a test or do not know what the test is". "If it creates any sort of harm to participants". There was more but those were the only ones I paid much note to.
Yeah. But the things I think of don't involve the subject knowing they are part of the experiment, because knowing they are in an experiment might change their behavior. However, things like that only interest me, and I couldn't see myself wanting to/ever carrying them out. They are fun to muse over though!
It's nothing gory or sick though. They are things like, what would happen if we took a baby and only surrounded it with a few colors, like green and blue, for its entire life until one day the young adult would then be exposed to every possible color. It would be like seeing new colors, which is hard for most people to imagine. How would the person react?? There are numerous flaws of course but still interesting and unethical--the baby didn't chose to be part of an experiment. It is toying with someone's life.
As long as you understand that they're unethical and the reason why they shouldn't be carried out then it's okay to think about them I would say.
But only if it stops there. If you understand that something is unethical then it's wrong to carry it out even if the other person is a willing participant.
Because people often agree to things that they later regret. They can be tricked or suggested to do something that isn't in their best interest. Or they simply may not understand what they are actually agreeing to.
It depends. Are their major things wrong with it that you try to hide or lie about? Is it unsafe to drive?
Simply getting someone to agree to something that is not in their own self interest is not in itself unethical.
My point was that if you already know something is unethical, then finding a willing participant doesn't give you a pass for unethical behavior.
A good example would be assisted suicide. If someone approaches you and tells you that they want to die, is it ethical to carry it out? I would say no because there is no guarantee that this person is in the right state of mind.
Yes it does. Since they agreed to it. How the contract works. Also I don't see how assisted suicide is unethical. If someone is sick and dying and will live in pain till the day they die why not? They know what you are doing and you are not creating any further pain. So assisted suicide by definition is ethical. So according to you if you are not hiding anything from the person buying the vehicle and it drives safely it is ethical. If you apply that to my experiment that means you think my experiment is ok, ethical and I should not feel bad doing it.