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Ryan Gardner's avatar

"The Nuremberg Code should be the first thing they learn and repeated every semester. All world leaders should be required to swear an oath to uphold the Nuremberg Code as they are sworn into office."

You're are 100% correct. It's really sad it's come to that.

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Ro Dann's avatar

The Nuremberg Code is unfortunately not US law

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Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

It is true that the Nuremberg Code is not codified into statutory law.

However, the Nuremberg Code IS an important statement of medical ethics, and its principles have been largely amplified and expanded by the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki on the ethics of medical research.

https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/

Similarly, the WMA Declaration of Geneva is a pledge advocated for all physicians to adhere to established ethics of medical practice.

https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/

The WMA Declaration of Lisbon expands on the rights of patients within the corpus of medical ethics.

https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-lisbon-on-the-rights-of-the-patient/

Moreover, medical ethics have been foundational to the professional practice of medicine in the US since 1847

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/code-medical-ethics-overview

Ethics and ethical codes are an important element to establishing the particular duty of care owed by one individual to another in a particular situation--and duty of care IS a legal requirement (civil, not criminal) in most if not all social and governmental situations.

While most elected leaders are not themselves medical practitioners, when it comes to dealing with mass outbreaks of infectious disease their advisors most assuredly will be medical practitioners, who have both the ethical obligation towards their profession and the legal duty of care to provide ethical and data-driven advice on potential policy responses.

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Perry Simms's avatar

It echoes obvious statements about medical ethics, in the context of a farcical political show trial.

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Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

While the broad elements of informed consent were present in American medical ethics prior to the Nuremberg Code, most of the formal development of medical ethics--in particular the WMA Declarations--have emerged in the postwar period, and are largely built upon the concepts articulated both within the Nuremberg Code as well as the Universal Declaration on Human Rights developed by the United Nations in 1948.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

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Perry Simms's avatar

But that UN declarations on "UNiversal Rights" is a commie lie, and they are not rights. They are anti-rights. It's an utter perversion of the concept of rights.

They include the "right" to a number of services. Services which must be provided by other humans.

Falsely declaring you have the right to the services of another human is tantamount to saying you have the right to enslave them to compel their service.

Elanor Roosevelt's declaration of Universal Human Slavery is one reason why Hillary Clinton said she worships that horse-faced bitch.

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