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Originally posted by Bang Up
5% seems like a low number, but that 5% means nothing when it has yielded vaccinations and medications that have literally saved hundreds of millions, if not billions of lives.
This is Smallpox, my dear friend. That is a child with Smallpox. Is that child's suffering less important than a couple thousand mice? |
I'm very aware of Smallpox, it was a vile thing. And to answer your question it isn't the fault of the mice that the child has smallpox so I don't believe they deserve to be tested on because of it. They never caused it and their suffering just to help selfish people Is not worth it as far as I'm concerned.
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Without animal testing, the vaccines needed to eradicate horrible diseases like Smallpox would not have been created. I get that you are coming at this from an emotional standpoint and you're thinking with your heart instead of your mind, but mice, fish, dogs, and cats are not more important than human lives. Mice, which make up most of the test animals, are not intelligent species capable of emotion or cognitive thought. They are mice. They are vermin, rodents, disease-ridden creatures. They can die for the advancement of human beings.
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mice, fish, dogs, and cats are not more important than human lives
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And humans aren't any more important than theirs. We're all biological creatures, we live on the same planet, we breath the same air. We're born, we live, we die. That's it.
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are not intelligent species capable of emotion or cognitive thought.
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And there are many severely disabled people in the world. Should we just test on them too, yeah? I mean they aren't emotionally developed and they lack cognitive skills and they don't have a good quality of life anyway.
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They are vermin, rodents, disease-ridden creatures
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Humans fit this description far more than any other species in existence. We are a disgusting, filthy, violent race who ruin everything we touch. We are a cancerous plague on this planet and have caused much more harm than good. We are killing Earth, other species and even each other. Extinction for humans would only be a good thing.
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They can die for the advancement of human beings
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In a selfish mind maybe, but they don't deserve to be in pain or exploited. Humans aren't that important, you're not that important. Stop thinking you are.
I agree.