Yes, indeed ! Everything is solvable with weapons, not Diplomacy ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />
To me, Life is sacred. I cannot harm or kill any living being because I consider life as being sacred.
However, I often doubt what tests with animals might bring - remember Contergan ? It was a sleeping drug tested with mice with no harmful results. However, the results on humans were devastating ...
Testing with animals reveals to m only one point of view : Animals or even anything else is unimportant, is expendable (right word ?), but humans are superior to anything else, therefore humans are the peak of everything.
I find this point of view - being shown in tests and experiments with animals, not humans, utterly arrogant. Humans who think so are the ones who are going to drive Mother Earth into destruction, because they believe they can do whatever they want, kill anything they want, destroy anything they want. Just keep in minds the tests for atom bombs, for example. There was a french test of a bomb on an island that didn't belong to them, only incvaded once as imperialists long ago. That island is no more. Thanks to the A-Bomb. And the people had to find a new home - no, they were forced to find themselves a new home !
That isthe expression of humans thinking of themselves they can do what they want because they are the peak of the evolution. Because they have power. The Ebola Virus thinks otherwise.
