In this presentation given at the National Symposium on Genetics and the Law, Luria addressed Jacques Monod's "ethic of knowledge" which suggested to some the absence of moral absolutes. Luria proposed that scientists adopt what he termed the "ethic of innocence," which centered on the notion that "morality does not exist in a vacuum, and that human pursuits should always be judged in terms of what their consequences are for other human beings." A variation of this speech appeared as an essay in the "Journal of Medical Philosophy" in 1976.
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