y applied to any situation. Naturalists hold that there is no life after this: death is final. A naturalist approaching the dilemma outlined above would certainly not take any kind of deity into account. Lacking the moral absolutes that are found in philosophies based on a supreme being, the naturalist turns to the ethical effect on human beings since ethics only relate to humans.
A naturalist is likely to take into consideration the idea that clinical trials conducted within the United States would yield side effects, if any, to those on whom the tests were run. Conducting these tests "in the field," or in a developing country would yield essentially the same situation (remembering that naturalists are particularly emphatic that human beings are the combined effect of the complex physiological and chemical reactions of their bodies). The naturalist is therefore li
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