That is exactly what drives me crazy about SGA - portraying the scientist that way. We are not like that! That is a lie. No scientist would think like Beckett, not because of the morals - it is just not interesting to think that way. People who think like Beckett don't 'go science'. I asked every person in my department, including my boss and Deputy Director, and the first question they asked me - 'what exactly those bloody Wraith eat? Do those doctors/scientists in Atlantis trying to find out what do they eat?' That's how your regular scientist thinks.