Vivisection

Questions

1. Should certain animals be excluded from experimentation?
2. Will the current experimentation on animals lead to experimentation on humans and will it be ok?
3. Do animals experience pain?

Response

The question I will be answering is, will the current experimentation on animals lead to experimentation on humans and will it be OK? I did not know much about vivisection before this reading by C.S. Lewis and a little research after I read chapter. Thinking about this question I first thought to history and of the Nazi doctors and their experimentation on humans. This was obviously not a war crime and no one thought what they did was OK. Fast forwarding a little, the American government experimented with the drug LSD on troops to see what affect it had on the soldiers and see if it made them super soldiers. This is obviously not the same as vivisection on animals, but it does bring up the alarming fact humans are willing to try experiments on other humans. When performing on animals they are doing live operations to see how the body works of the certain animal. Down the road I think the human race would perform it on other humans. I think that science will eventually do it because they are always trying to push the boundaries on our knowledge. One reason I think they would use to support it is that the only way to truly understand the anatomy of the human body is to experiment on an actual human. They will probably say it is for the greater benefit of the human race. I wonder how they would choose the people to experiment on. I would assume they would choose prisoners that are on death row. So now it could be another form of execution. But this does not make it OK. This is something that could be an excuse for genocide. There is no real way they could ever justify the experimentation of humans because they can still not justify the experimentation on animals.