Why Is Flowers For Algernon Ethical

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Luke Feisullin Putman Hr. 5 15 November 2016 Argument Paper Ethics are what society accepts to be justified, reasonable, and humane. In the story Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon is a man with a mental disability that impairs his learning skills. A group of doctors decides to preform a surgery to enhance Charlie's intelligence. This course of action was unethical. This is true because the doctors never informed Charlie of the procedure involved in the surgery. They also never considered the fact that Charlie might not be intelligent enough to make those types of decisions. Since the patient was incapacitated, and didn't have a qualified person to make decisions for him, the doctors couldn't really know if this is what

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