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> This is a bad faith reading of what these activists want. It amounts to a strawman. Not it is not a straw man argument. Non-human primate trials are the las
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> This is a bad faith reading of what these activists want. It amounts to a strawman.
Not it is not a straw man argument. Non-human primate trials are the last stage before human testing. Eliminating non-human primate trials will increase the risk for human participants(unless they actually stop developing).
Our understanding of biology is nowhere near comprehensive enough to be able to simulate all these interactions and isn’t likely to be for maybe a century.
So if you eliminate non-primate human testing, your options are either to develop therapies at greater risk to humans, or to stop developing them.
Either of those options hurts humans. Thus, you are placing the well-being of non-human animals above the well-being of humans.
- oaktrout 4y agoI agree. I see this sort of misunderstanding commonly here. Hacker news is filled with individuals who think computers can solve all our problems, and at the same time they lack the most basic understanding of the complexities of biology.
- maxbond 4y agoIf people do not make it known that this behavior is unacceptable, the alternative technology will not be developed. Industry would be happy to abuse animals until the end of time. Framing this as a _preference_ for one kind of life or another is, in fact, a straw man. No such preference is necessary to accept this line of reasoning.