Humane and inhumane.

"Must I prove my humanity by destroying my peace?" Quote from Laura Elliott, in her book Awakened.

Like ripping off a sticky bandage knowing it will hurt - someone other than yourself. Making that choice, or taking that action, for/ on the part of someone else. Not so different from real science and scientists making choices, decisions and taking actions which could seem questionable, less humane. But, having that iron backbone to do what needs to be done even though it isn't easy or popular.

In fiction mad scientists get stereotyped as being misdirected, inhumane, and even cruel. Bumblers on the other hand, not cruel but doddering, fumbling and thoughtless.

Is it fair? Or is it over critical to see them that way while also depending on their (so called) inhumanity to give us the research into disease which we benefit from?

Should they cry and stress about the harm and stress they cause while ripping off that sticky bandage? Or can they be given the benefit of being able to work without feeling inhumane?

I think there should be a middle ground. I think there needs to be a middle ground. To work in science without awareness, or some kind of respect, for the individual pain and suffering would remove a limit that should be there. It creates a frame of reference versus having no guide or limits at all. Science needs to be curious but it also needs to be measured in order to continue to be science.

Maybe that is the boundary between science and art.

What do you think?