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Why would such a thing be more ethical if performed on a non-consenting monkey than if on a consenting human?
by interfixus 10y ago
Why would such a thing be more ethical if performed on a non-consenting monkey than if on a consenting human?
- Camillo 10y agoBecause animals are not people. Their ethical value, while nonzero, is incommensurate to a human's. It would be ethical to behead ten thousand monkeys if it meant we could cure paralysis.
- sshbio 10y agoHuman is an animal. It is an Ape from the beginning. And the first thing that the monkey that actually got its head transplanted on another monkey body was to bite a nearby surgeon, before to fall unconscious and die. So I guess it was painful. It was not a head exchange, and the monkey that loss its body was not saved. Would it be ethical to you if 100 Houyhnhnms[1] got cured from paralysis if hundred human lost their head? Of course, I'm not aware of any Houyhnhnm existing, so this can not be applied. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houyhnhnm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houyhnhnm
- sshbio 10y ago"More ethical" I still agree that we feel this more ethical to harm other species, just like it could be less ethical to harm family than a pure stranger.
- 6nf 10y agoBut the human is consenting