Again and again.How are WE going to deal with the fact that so much of the life-saving knowledge, medical for example, is taken from the situations, experiences, experiments we now consider abhorrently immoral? Notepads, retrieved from people we justly call monsters. Medical examinations of tortured prisoners, sometimes tortured my the entities we call "ours". Analyses of human-designed disasters, either used as tools of war, or just side-effects of "unstoppable progress" of this or that kind.
And who will tell that it should never happen, to a mother of a refugee child, rescued from hypothermia thanks to the knowledge, originated in Auschwitz experiments?
As Elinor Ostrom said: life's complex and simple answers are a no-go.
Six years later, I can finally say that the answer, then given by my late friend, #MorrisDovey, became mine at last.
Simple answer: We shed tears for past victims when we learn of them, and we are glad to help those we can in the here and now – and at the end of the day, we give thanks for those who have helped us.
It need not be any more complicated.
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