Test Subject

Ms. Steelson,

While I can appreciate your sentiment, and I do not wish for this to turn into a religious morals debate, it is precisely for the purpose of putting down creatures like this, and their more... advanced brethren, such as vampires, demons, True Warlocks, and Lycanthropes, that I perform these tests.

I do not view my work as a game or being just to see what happens. The discoveries to be made have the potential to save countless lives from death or worse. Because of my work and the work of those like me, there is the possibility to put into the hands of the layman a tool to swiftly and mercifully put down any Negative Energy-based creature that one may encounter. Not only will even the least combative individual be able to defend themselves and their homes, but your deity will receive the trapped soul that much faster.

It may seem barbaric or distasteful, but I personally consider it a small price to pay to save future lives.

I do hope this is not found to be offensive, as it is not meant to be so.

Dr. Nigel Whitworth

Dr. Whitworth has my support and backing.

Morality has no place in Science.

Dr. Whitworth please be sure to check your post I shall be writing to you shortly.

Dr. Whitworth,

Thank you for your reply and explanation. While you and I may draw the line between what is acceptable and unacceptable in different places, I appreciate that you are giving thought to the tradeoffs involved. And lest there be any misunderstanding, Galladel is not my god more than any of the others of the light. I simply feel keenly for someone who has lost a loved one, only to discover that they have been kept from finding their proper ending or returning to the material plane. Perhaps we may speak of it in person some day.

Sir Cypher,

With all the respect due your title, your statement is vacuous. It seeks to defend actions by hiding behind process. If morality has no place in science, it also has no place in alchemy, the Arcane, smithing or nearly any other tradition of thought or creation beyond those related directly to the divine, for none of these are powered by right or wrong. Yet the statement that morality has no place in smithing certainly would not immunize my actions, for example, if I killed another in order to gather a component to create a powerful weapon. While the current situation involving Dr. Whitworth is, of course, not so extreme, your statement creates a dangerously slippery slope.