Killing Animals Immoral?
Killing Animals Immoral?
Animal experimentation has been a major debate in the national community since the 1600s, and has grown immensely since then. The debate has many views, which three of will be expressed in this paper. The three are: how animal experimentation is wrong and immoral, how it helps the larger community and doesn’t hurt the larger community, and how it sometimes is immoral or wrong but in other times it helps the community. This debate is documented by many people and should be researched extensively and not just tossed to the side. Animal experimentation has helped with many scientific developments and other developments like make-up. On the other hand it has hurt many animals and many people find this wrong. This means that scientists and people who use animal experimentation products care about this debate as well as animal right’s activists. One view of animal experimentation is how it is immoral and wrong. The center of the debate is whether animals should be used for medical research. The question that should be asked is, does the human species deserve inclusion in research over other species? Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, wrote: “Despite obvious differences between humans and nonhuman animals, we share with them a capacity to suffer, and this means that they, like us, have interests. If we ignore or discount their interests, simply on the grounds that they are not members of our species, the logic of our position is similar to that of the most blatant racists or sexists who think that those who belong to their race or sex have superior moral status, simply in virtue of their race or sex, and irrespective of other characteristics or qualities." Humans have shown their capability to control other species by capturing them, imprisoning them, and subjecting them to many strange experiments to see how the animals would react. The BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) says that the main reason
Animal experimentation has been a major debate in the national community since the 1600s, and has grown immensely since then. The debate has many views, which three of will be expressed in this paper. The three are: how animal experimentation is wrong and immoral, how it helps the larger community and doesn’t hurt the larger community, and how it sometimes is immoral or wrong but in other times it helps the community. This debate is documented by many people and should be researched extensively and not just tossed to the side. Animal experimentation has helped with many scientific developments and other developments like make-up. On the other hand it has hurt many animals and many people find this wrong. This means that scientists and people who use animal experimentation products care about this debate as well as animal right’s activists. One view of animal experimentation is how it is immoral and wrong. The center of the debate is whether animals should be used for medical research. The question that should be asked is, does the human species deserve inclusion in research over other species? Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, wrote: “Despite obvious differences between humans and nonhuman animals, we share with them a capacity to suffer, and this means that they, like us, have interests. If we ignore or discount their interests, simply on the grounds that they are not members of our species, the logic of our position is similar to that of the most blatant racists or sexists who think that those who belong to their race or sex have superior moral status, simply in virtue of their race or sex, and irrespective of other characteristics or qualities." Humans have shown their capability to control other species by capturing them, imprisoning them, and subjecting them to many strange experiments to see how the animals would react. The BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) says that the main reason
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