Is animal testing justified?
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i think i consensus should be met on where we draw the line (or form some sort of gradient, where either are based on distinguished properties) between that which we care about as a living creature and that which we do not. you kill millions of bacteria every day simply by being alive. you have stepped on and killed countless bugs. you are responsible for a proportion of the countless lives taken to provide food for people, be they from animals or plants. Imagine I have designed a drug that we think could cure cancer. It works well in the lab. We do not know if it is dangerous to mammals. We think there might be some chance of it resulting in death (around 10% lets say). We want to test on animals first to reduce this risk. Are you saying it is better to just give it to cancer patients and let it kill them than test it on animals first? Are you saying it is better to just give it to cancer patients and let it kill them than test it on animals first? Absolutely; you're presupposing the illusory worth of a cancer patient. What makes a cancer patient have intrinsic precedence over any other mammal? (The administration need not be irrational, i.e. do not submit the drug to the market/public until you sample it on a handful of cancer patients.) |
