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Am I to believe you? Even if these experiments do have importance, are they more important than being humane and ethical? We're so damn advanced as a race, yet
by shadowrunner 13y ago
Am I to believe you? Even if these experiments do have importance, are they more important than being humane and ethical?
We're so damn advanced as a race, yet we can't come up with more humane alternatives?
We have record unemployment and pharmaceutical companies that are making billions in profits, why can't we experiment on humans who give consent and are fairly compensated? It's more humane to animals and people.
- unimpressive 13y agoBecause these experiments kill stuff. The humans are more valuable, and I'm sorry that you'd rather see them die than a few rodents.
- shadowrunner 13y agoAnd I'm sorry you lack insight and empathy towards both animals and people who could use the income to have a better life.
- GHFigs 13y agoThe problem is you (as a scientist) don't know that an experimental subject will have a better life, or a life at all, and you don't have enough data about the risks to fairly compensate a person for taking those risks on. You're just making the cost of collecting data much more expensive while shifting the risk (of suffering, disability, death) from animals bred for the purpose to poor people.
- anoncow 13y agoWhile the topic was about animal suffering, you are talking about suffering in human subjects. As far as I know(and that is not much), human studies are done after animal studies. This means the drug is most likely not toxic to animals and by extension humans.
- GHFigs 13y agoYou didn't read the thread. He's suggesting doing human studies instead of animal studies.
- anoncow 13y agoWithout animal studies, you are exposing human subjects to potentialy toxic drugs.
- unimpressive 13y agoThat's what we said.