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Quotation from The Science of Right by Immanuel Kant
“But a Court of Justice would repudiate with scorn any proposal of this kind if made to it by the Medical Faculty; for Justice would cease to be Justice, if it were bartered away for any consideration whatever”
The Science of Right, Part II, § 49, General Remark E. I. The Right of Punishing, trans. W. Hastie (1887)
Kant rejects the proposal that a condemned criminal be spared if he survives dangerous experiments that physicians might find useful to the commonwealth.
Citation: "But a Court of Justice would repudiate with scorn any proposal of this kind if made to it by the Medical Faculty; for Justice would cease to be Justice, if it were bartered away for any consideration whatever" — Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right, Part II, § 49, General Remark E. I. The Right of Punishing, trans. W. Hastie (1887). (id kant-science-of-right-q11)
