I don't see the experiments as torture in any sense of the word. What Beckett is attempting is a way to neutralize a creature (sentient or not) that has prayed for millennia on human beings without the least trace of compassion. Now they're even completely depopulating entire planets. For a sentient species that's incredibly vicious and stupid. If the Iratus DNA can be permanently eradicated, then there is hope for co-existence. The only other answer would be complete genocide of the individuals that make up the species of Wraith. At least with the retrovirus, the individuals live even it they are not longer Wraith.
As for all the hand-wringing about the morality of Beckett's retrovirus, I guess I have a pretty low moral standard because I have no problem with my own species doing whatever is necessary to protect itself from these predators.
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Date: 2006-07-22 05:38 pm (UTC)As for all the hand-wringing about the morality of Beckett's retrovirus, I guess I have a pretty low moral standard because I have no problem with my own species doing whatever is necessary to protect itself from these predators.