Whoa! Somebody yanked us back to the topic! ...
The use of animals for experimantation is a cruel but neccessary occurance. We also have to live with it. I can. I see the good it does all the time. Responsibility for your actions and the consequences thereof is part of being human. We should take ourselves very seriously, we need to keep our actions in check. Why? Because no-one else will do it.
Amen and pass the steak! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Each and every one of us has benefitted one way or another from animal testing. Animals, like nature, do not have ethical or moral boundries. Mankind is the only 'animal' who has the capacity to judge, make decisions and have the ability to reason. And it is because we have this ability or 'gift' it should be exercised. If we simply gave in to our primal needs without using our 'gifts' we would never have evolved. See, nature is neither inherently good or evil. It simply is. It's man's ability to reason that gave birth to the concepts of good and evil. (Read your philosophers. This isn't a new idea).
So, animal testing is here probably to stay for quite some time to come. Or unless we can devise a virtual laboratory where the only thing we kill is bandwidth. Then again, someone would protest against that, too and call it 'abuse'. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Faralas <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />
