As a vegan, I would simply say NO, but I realize that the moral issues can be complex depending on what a person believes to be the highest good. It's also hard to know unless it actually happens to you and challenges your integrity. These are the points that come up in my mind:
1) Is their physical/emotional suffering any less than the physical/emotional suffering that a human goes through without treatment? Is it therefore more important to preserve the complex life form when faced with this circumstance? OR 2) Is it perhaps more important to base preservation upon the delicate balance of the ecosystem, and not the complexity of the life form involved--meaning that due to human overpopulation, humans must forego such miracle drugs to allow death as normal and not harm other beings in order to preserve itself and the balance. OR 3) Does one believe that alternative non-chemical methods can be used and feel that it is wiser to allow some suffering and die off of humans in the wisdom of finding a healthier and more compassionate solution? In short, because I do believe in a higher, divine power evidenced in my own life and responses through prayer, I advocate #3. This means enduring your own suffering or the suffering of a loved one if you are against animal testing. We should continue with drugs that have already safely passed the research stage with animals because it is too late and many of us currently take/taken those drugs. For future drugs, I would hope that I can stand by my word and avoid consuming any that have been developed on the backs of animals. I think all life forms have a right to their own life and if you're suffering, that's your own problem. Don't conduct harmful experiments on others without their consent.
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The Taiwanese equivalent of saying "You are way too noisy" is "You bug dead people."
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May 2014
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