Are Vivisections on animals right or wrong?
What are vivisections on animals used for?
What are alternatives to vivisections on animals?
“The rarest thing in the word to
hear a rational discussion of vivisection.” That was a great statement to start
this chapter, because I agree that vivisection is a rare conversation to hear
people talking about. Vivisection is the practice of operation on live animals
for the experimental purposes. This chapter taken from “God in the Dock,” is a
discussion mainly about pain being evil or not. The author states, “if pain is
not evil why should suffering be reduced?” “Now if pain is an evil then the
infliction of pain, considered in itself, must clearly be an evil act.” After
reading the chapter, it made me think a lot about the circumstances of pain and
live animal testing. Honestly, I have never thought to deep about all the animal
vivisections that go on. It makes me wonder if it is right or wrong to
vivisection? I believe it can go both ways, so it is hard for me to have a
strong opinion about it being fully right or fully wrong. However, I would
definitely lean more towards the side of it being wrong. First, animals are not
humans and have different metabolisms and different anatomical and immunities
etc. Even though certain animals and humans can share similarities, I still
think it does not make sense for them to be related to one another. For
instance, how would animal testing be valid to the human body? Testing
something on an animal then giving it to a human will most likely have
different reactions since we are a completely different species. Second, it is so
sad and wrong to know the animals are being tortured. Thousands of animals are
being cut open, starved, drugged, or froze to complete vivisections. There are
many alternatives to test drugs and what not, or at least there should be
restrictions and rules before torturing the poor innocent animals.
Hi Samie! I was also a bit on the fence and back and forth with my thoughts on this issue. It initially appears that the issue of vivisection does not seem to be something that directly affects me. However, in the case of testing drugs with animals, I think I would rather try to see what kind of affects a drug had on a rat with cancer before it was attempted on a human with cancer. I do see your point about whether drugs that affect rodents would create the same reaction in a human being. Kinda makes one think. Good luck the rest of the semester!
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