• KrankyKong@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Because humans are more valuable. If you had to choose between saving one human, and one hundred rats, which would you choose? We test on rats until we deem it safe and ethical enough to progress to testing on humans.

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      1 month ago

      That doesn’t make the lives of animals worthless. And they are treated as less than worthless.

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        1 month ago

        Can you answer the question, “If you had to choose between saving one human and one hundred rats,which would you choose?” The answer to your questions is related to this one.

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          It’s not related because that choice is not what is happening. You don’t have one button that kills/saves rats and one that kills/saves a human.

          What is happening is that we have deemed it morall ok to medically experiment on non-human animals but not on humans.

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            1 month ago

            It’s absolutely related. Animal testing has indirectly saved countless lives. I think you’re refusing to answer because it doesn’t help your argument.

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              What argument? I haven’t made an argument, I want to know your position and what it is about humans that makes them more valuable than non-human animals.