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Ethics of Chemical Weapons Research: Poison Gas in World War One
Joachim Schummer
This paper first provides a brief narrative of the research, development, and deployment of poison gases in WWI as well as of the subsequent history of chemical warfare and international conventions to ban it. Because chemical weapons research is still allowed by national and international laws, and indeed widely conducted, it is a primary case for ethical investigation. The analysis shows that chemical weapons research is morally wrong by all major ethical theories, i.e. by both utilitarianism and deontology. That conclusion has frequently been blurred by confusions, such as between patriotism and ethics and between weapons research and deployment, which are clarified. The chemical communities who have honored the heroes of poison gas research seem to disregard ethics in their honoring system.
Ethics of chemical weapons research
poison gas
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Copyright © 2018 by HYLE and Joachim Schummer
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