h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: The Ethical Issues With Vivisection - A740594
Author: werekitty (Keeper of Werebeasties, Lexx and Kai) - U193430

Here it is.

again.






hello?

Hello again.

*looks in fear*
aaah!

Thanks for coming.
You wanna write something and I'll put it in?

OK, I'll have a think about it first though. I may be quite some time as I'm up to my eyeballs in other things.

cool. And tell me what you think is too extreme or emotive and It'll be gone, or I can alter the headings. I want to show all views.

Hiya Werekitty

Sorry if I offeneded you with some of my last points, feel free to cut and paste anything I said in the last conversation forum into entry. I really didn't want to be confrontational at all.

it's ok, i didn't unsubscribe coz of what you said, I unsubscribed to stop the madness!

The horror.

the horror.

oh, same goes for you. Work out what you want in and out and tell me.

I think anything I've posted in the previous conversation thread can go in. I may make a personal argument from my point of view as an entry first but I need to go and buy my Xmas cards for the year to begin with!

I think we should state the statistics, the benefits and the negatives, and the way the power given can be abused, measures to improve it and measures to stop it and current issues, what life is like being harassed by anti's and an anti's point of view. Ok?

*plays jingle bells on the repressed tension in the ether-air*

Yup and there's alway's the deep ethical issues, ie. the value of animals in comparason to human's issue here. I think that the section about power could be one of the negatives.

Also I think there is a section on current legistlation in the UK which is rather strict should good. There should also be a section on research into alturnatives, the current use of alturnatives.. (you can get this stuff on the http://www.frame.org.uk/ website )

a link to how close humans and animals are? As one of mine? Like how we wouldn't vivisect a six year old but we would vivisect an animal of the equivalent intelligence. I too make this definition, but that's part of my insinct to protect my species and therefore it is natural specism.

I could try to write a summary of Peter Singer's arguments if you like. Specisism is one of his theories....

Otto

That would be good, I read animal liberation when I was 17 and agreed with it all totally at the time, have you read it were kitty? i think his book was the birth of hte modern animal liberation movement.

eep!

Good isn't it? apparently he's also said that if abortions ok then it should be ok to kill children up to 28 days old.. which really isn't so nice is it?

that's illogical coz the equivalent of a chickens time in the womb is as long as it's in it's egg. What's his argument for it?

No children, as in human children! his argument is that if it's ok to kill animals then it's ok to kill human's when they are no more advanced that animals I think.

oops!
yes, that's what I was getting at before I went off on that fowl tangent.