 hugh20 |
Not sure if it's philosophy but I would like to see what you think.
Where do you stand on animal testing? more specifically. I support full-heartedly as the experiments can help millions of people and only for the lifes of a few animals. I do not believe that animals are inferior to humans. We obviously all evolved from the same background but adapted differently to suit our habitat, and we became the dominant animal. Yet there is guilt in using an animal to improve mankinds lifestyle or diseases, but we can just say the testing and results are for collective good. This reminds me of the question that if you have 3 sickly, terminal patients in a doctors surgery that require urgent transplants and will die without them, and there is a perfectly suitable donor outside in for a routine check-up with no wishes to donate, should you take the donor against his will and take the organs? Most people would answer no, but if you support 'collective good' for animal testing surely you would be a hipocrite to say the donor should not be taken. Discuss? |
Not sure if it's philosophy but I would like to see what you think.
Where do you stand on animal testing? more specifically. I support full-heartedly as the experiments can help millions of people and only for the lifes of a few animals. I do not believe that animals are inferior to humans. We obviously all evolved from the same background but adapted differently to suit our habitat, and we became the dominant animal. Yet there is guilt in using an animal to improve mankinds lifestyle or diseases, but we can just say the testing and results are for collective good. This reminds me of the question that if you have 3 sickly, terminal patients in a doctors surgery that require urgent transplants and will die without them, and there is a perfectly suitable donor outside in for a routine check-up with no wishes to donate, should you take the donor against his will and take the organs? Most people would answer no, but if you support 'collective good' for animal testing surely you would be a hipocrite to say the donor should not be taken. Discuss? |
desadaphas |
Every "living" creature should have the same rights.
As far as I am concerned, there is a difference between existance and live.( Live to me is definded by emotions and perception and a "mind")
There isn't a way to rate the worth of beings, so we can't tell who is "inferior". A life cannot be excanged for another, but if it's taken (what in my opinnion is one of the biggest, if not the biggest crimes) and this causes that torture and loss of many lives are avoided, it could be a legitimation but I would not be able to take this life or order it to be taken |
Every "living" creature should have the same rights.
As far as I am concerned, there is a difference between existance and live.( Live to me is definded by emotions and perception and a "mind")
There isn't a way to rate the worth of beings, so we can't tell who is "inferior". A life cannot be excanged for another, but if it's taken (what in my opinnion is one of the biggest, if not the biggest crimes) and this causes that torture and loss of many lives are avoided, it could be a legitimation but I would not be able to take this life or order it to be taken |
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