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I really wish they would quit torturing animals for this kind of garbage. If people are so desperate to live on, why not proceed directly to human experiments?
by sxcurry 10y ago
I really wish they would quit torturing animals for this kind of garbage. If people are so desperate to live on, why not proceed directly to human experiments?
- rtkwe 10y agoIt's pretty simple human lives have more ethical weight than animals in pretty much every culture, and I agree. Also there's a massive amount of unknowns when it comes to biology most experiments won't work but we have no way of testing without trying it out.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 10y agoI see where you're coming from. One of my best friends does spinal cord research to repair severed spinal cords. This involves damaging the spinal cords of primates. It makes me feel uneasy, but there really is no other way and certainly experimenting on a person is less ethical than experimenting on an animal. No one wants to harm the animal.
- euyyn 10y agoExperimenting on the animal before doing it on the person is understandable. But it raises more ethical concerns, not fewer, due to the fact that the animal cannot possibly consent to the experiment.
- duncan_bayne 10y agoI think that's an example of category error. Animals aren't capable of consent because they aren't capable of comprehending either consent, or the experiment in question. If they were, they'd be human by any sensible definition. To rely on consent to perform animal experiments is like relying on my sandwich to consent to me eating it. It's just not a thing sandwiches are capable of doing.
- euyyn 10y agoNobody relies on consent to perform animal experiments, because animals can't consent, so I'm not sure where you're trying to go with that. Unlike the sandwich you're eating, animals are capable of suffering, which is why experimenting with them raises ethical issues to start with. Some people are incapable of comprehending consent, and are incapable of comprehending scientific experiments. Those people can't be subjects of experiments, precisely for that reason. You seem to be arguing for the opposite.
- euyyn 10y agoHave you never lost anybody and wished they'd live on?