Ethical Debates, what's your stance?
In Voyager, season 5 episode 8, Nothing Human, an alien attaches itself to B'elanna in order to keep itself alive. In a desperate attempt to save her, the doctor summons up a recreation of a Cardassian exobiologist to offer his knowledge on the situation. The doctor is horrified to find that this Cardassian was Crell Moset, who experimented on and basically tortured people as his research. The violent repulsion of his Bajoran crew mate brings up the question of how to handle the simulation. A lot of the Maquis crew demands it be destroyed. The hologram itself does not contain any information about the crimes committed by the man he was based on. I find my mind returning episodes where characters push on, saying that if they give up, those who died for the objective would have died for nothing if it is not completed.
What do you think? After so many died at the hand of this monster to discover new treatments, would it make more sense to use those treatments for good? Or will those deaths mean more as a statement against unethical treatment of other human beings, destroying any good that comes from that type of behavior?