Could a mod add a simple yes/no poll to this one, thanks.
One of the cornerstones, if not the main theme, of the Hippocratic oath is the promise to "do no harm". Despite this however we've seen Beckett participate in numerous experiments that were directly aimed at harming Wraith "patients" who were the prisoners of the expedition. The first case being the injection of experimental drugs into a Wraith prisoner in "poisoning the well".
He's also masterminded the development of a weaponised virus that, if used correctly, will rob a Wraith of not only his memories and personal mind/identity as an individual, essentially erasing the being that was from existence. In addition it will also take from the Wraith the numerous natural physical advantages he enjoys over human beings, not the least of which is immortality, leaving him in a state lesser than that which he was born naturally. He has done this becaus he believes the Wraith will be better off in their reduced state, perhaps much the same way an insane docter who was blind himself might go around intentionally blinding patients because he thinks blindness is better.
He has done both of these things over the harsh protest of the individuals in question as well, often required them to be restrained or subdued before he could perform his "treatments".
As you may have been able to discern I think he has broken it. Numerous times, and with a shocking degree of obliviousness or denial that he was doing it.
One of the cornerstones, if not the main theme, of the Hippocratic oath is the promise to "do no harm". Despite this however we've seen Beckett participate in numerous experiments that were directly aimed at harming Wraith "patients" who were the prisoners of the expedition. The first case being the injection of experimental drugs into a Wraith prisoner in "poisoning the well".
He's also masterminded the development of a weaponised virus that, if used correctly, will rob a Wraith of not only his memories and personal mind/identity as an individual, essentially erasing the being that was from existence. In addition it will also take from the Wraith the numerous natural physical advantages he enjoys over human beings, not the least of which is immortality, leaving him in a state lesser than that which he was born naturally. He has done this becaus he believes the Wraith will be better off in their reduced state, perhaps much the same way an insane docter who was blind himself might go around intentionally blinding patients because he thinks blindness is better.
He has done both of these things over the harsh protest of the individuals in question as well, often required them to be restrained or subdued before he could perform his "treatments".
As you may have been able to discern I think he has broken it. Numerous times, and with a shocking degree of obliviousness or denial that he was doing it.
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