This has been argued over for many years and has lots of information supporting both sides of the argument. For a long time humans have tested on animals with almost never questioning if it is ethical or not. Animal testing includes many levels of cuelty expanding from non violent things like changing rats DNA to make them glow to very cruel things like sewing cats eyes closed and making rabbits inhale toxic fumes. In some situations its very beneficial though, like when they tested on cows creating a vacination for small pox.
Some people believe that animals have rights just like humans and should not be able to be tested on. Some evidence backing that up is that a lot of the time its not reliable information as animals are different than humans. Different things are toxic to animals then humans and animals dont get the same drug side effects as humans, so this causes non reliable information and can be serverly dangerous to animals whitout the humans having a clue. It is also argued that animal experimentations are very expensive and there are many people willing to be tested on for a smaller amount of money.
Many people believe that animal testing is fine and ethics arent a problem as long as it is for the benefit of humans. Because they arent humans and cant express their feelings to us, there is nothing unethical about it. Others argue that just because they dont express their feelings does not mean that they dont have feelings so its completely unethical to test on them. The people that think ethics dont matter believe that humans arent being hurt or damaged in these tests so its better to have animals as they are not as important.
I believe that testing on animals is not ethical in some situations like when they but the animal in danger or risk its life, but if its not in risk of harming the animal or being cruel to it then its fine. Killing animals is not ok while experimenting as you would not want it to be done to humans but if it is a harmless test I dont see any reason not to do it. Just imagine if you didnt have any choice or saying in it and the government just picked you out to be experimented on and there was a chance of you dying from it. that does not seem very ethical to me and that is why I believe that this should not be allowed. Yes, there may be a few instances where they think it wont cause harm and it does but that should not happen to often.
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Do you believe that testing on animals is ethical?
If we could not test on animals would there be an alternitive option to test on?
If paid would you be willing to become a test subject?
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I do not believe that animal testing is ethical at all. I think that if we could not test on animals someone would end up finding something or someone else to test on. If I am paid a lot of money I think I might be willing to become a test subject and if something goes sideways the people who tested on me would pay for my medical bills.
I agree that testing on animals isnt always ethical but I think humans wouldnt want to get tested on either because of the fact that there is always a risk of being harmed. I think even if I got paid a lot of money I still would not become one as there is a chance to get harmed in the process but there is also a chance that you could die.
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