03-14-2015, 07:03 PM
Apart from the animal cruelty issue - which is of course vital - there is also another dimension to this. By creating ever more and more potent and dangerous chemical agents and viruses, this creates a spiralling weapons race between countries. Humans managed, however, to stop the nuclear weapons race from spiralling further, so we could easily do the same for chemical and biological weapons. There is also the risk that one day, one of these super-viruses (which could wipe out all of humanity) could escape from a laboratory. There have been the odd leaks in the past from laboratories, but luckily they were not the most virulent types.
But in any case, the use of animals for these horrific experiments, specifically exempted from the limited rules which exist for medical experiments, cannot be justified morally, no matter how the apologists for them may try. If some humans feel compelled to invent ever more potent chemical and biological weapons to destroy others, they should visit a psychiatrist to ask why they are so paranoid about being attacked by an imagined aggressor. That is their problem. But why should innocent animals - who have no wars to fight - be made to suffer for a paranoid arms race?
But in any case, the use of animals for these horrific experiments, specifically exempted from the limited rules which exist for medical experiments, cannot be justified morally, no matter how the apologists for them may try. If some humans feel compelled to invent ever more potent chemical and biological weapons to destroy others, they should visit a psychiatrist to ask why they are so paranoid about being attacked by an imagined aggressor. That is their problem. But why should innocent animals - who have no wars to fight - be made to suffer for a paranoid arms race?
