After reading the assigned material for the week, I was astonished that animal protestors would target the researchers and their family especially their children. I can't believe the protestors can compare an animal life to a human life. How else do they expect for researchers to come up with cures to save human lives. Do they think they can come up with it without doing any testing? Who do they expect for them to do research on? I think I would rather lose a rat than lose a mother, father, sister, brother etc. Have they not had a family member sick and need medicine or even themselves? How do they think that Tylenol or any other medication came on the shelf? Not without testing. I don't think they would like to give their family member pain medication and them not wake up because there was a side effect because the medication was not properly studied or tested. We need animals to do testing to come up with cures. That is why God gave us animal and plants for us. I would rather lose an animal than a family member or friend.
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I think part of the reason some activists turn to extremism is the inability to determine just how different humans are from other animals. Animal rights extremists equate the life of a single animal with that of a human, and this is completely delusion thinking. As much as I hate to say it, a human life is more valuable than that of another animal. Now, I love animals and I would never intentionally harm one, but the truth of the matter is that a non-human animal doesn't have the capacity to affect the world in the way that a single person can. I think this is what some people fail to grasp. I love my cat more than anything in the world, but if someone told me I had to choose between her life or mine, I would base my decision on the fact that my cat can't become the next President of the United States.
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