Animal Research

[Demosthenes]

For it? Against it?

Why?

Let the fiasco commence!

[!King_Amazon!]

For it. It saves human lives. Humans>Animals.

[Lenny]

For, and for more or less the same reason as !K_A!. Try a product straight out of the labs on a human, and you'd most likely kill them. These days, a lot of animals in labs are bred to be animals in labs. Scientists don't go out and capture them specifically for the experiments, but rather they breed them. Less cruel that way.

[D3V]

For it. It saves human lives. Humans>Animals.

Humans = Animals

[Sovereign]

For. As cruel as it may sound, testing something on a bunch of animals and letting them die is not as bad as releasing it to the world where potentially MILLIONS of people can be harmed from negative side effects.

[D3V]

How about animals we don't like, such as ostriches.

[Willkillforfood]

I'm not sure if they're the best to test human-destined products on.

[Coffeedagger]

I think researching animals sounds cool like finding out where they live and what they eat. Unless you mean animal testing, then I'm not really a fan of that. No other real alternative so it's nesecary I think.

[Willkillforfood]

It's animal testing, dawg.

[Coffeedagger]

oh well like i said nesecary evil I guess.

[Atnas]

I don't know about you guys but personally, if I was a cat, I would so want to glow in the dark.

Humans = Animals

Not really. Humans outlive most animals. We erect buildings and write literature, paint portraits and compose music. More important than eating sleeping and shitting. Most importantly we are both of the same species and animals are not, so isn't that kind of going against species survival instincts?

Last I checked we were humans, not animals. Mammals, yes, but the term animal does not include human in the common perception.

[Coffeedagger]

I believe that a few weeks ago you told asamin and I that animals and plants feel more than humans. : ) Retracting that statement?

[Atnas]

I'm not retracting the statement. As a human I would gladly kill a plant or animal rather than a human. I don't give a shit how much more they can feel or think than we are capable of, I'm protecting my goddamn species. : D

And dogs make a cute sound when they're in pain :rolleyes:

[Demosthenes]

We erect buildings and write literature, paint portraits and compose music. More important than eating sleeping and shitting.

I see equally beautiful things in nature. The honey bee's hive has the intricacy of a building, the song of a bird is as beautiful as that of a human's, and literature and portraits are a modern development. By that standard, would you assert that humans 10,000 years ago were less valuable than humans today since they did not write literature, paint portraits, or compose music?

species survival instincts?

There's a species survival instinct?!