Mengele was a doubly bad example for scientific ethics because the cruelties he committed weren't even remotely scientific. Bad ethics can lead one astray to th

Mengele was a doubly bad example for scientific ethics because the cruelties he committed weren't even remotely scientific. Bad ethics can lead one astray to that nonsense. There is no quandry there when there isn't anything to gain through depravity. Compare that to the quandry of resurrectionists and doctors - a noble goal and duty to save lives, when the principles are already that life is more important than property. As far back as even Dante Alighieri smashing a baptismal font to rescue a boy from drowning. Such ghoulish behavior fully fit in with the underlying ethics as righteous even if society found it abhorrent. The basement approach seems to be an unfortunate side effect of the illegality - disposal via even improper burials doubles the risk of being caught. Let alone transporting a coffin "from nowhere" with a skeleton, especially if it was to return where the bodies were "borrowed" from.