Posted by alexandra_k on April 19, 2021, at 3:53:24
In reply to Re: we have to be cruel to others because..., posted by sigismund on April 18, 2021, at 20:04:00
We value cruelty?
I got so sick of Otago...
The... Under-developed... Ethics, there.
Only a sort of a rudimentary sort of an ethics is allowed there.
When it comes to euthanasia. When it comes to animal research. When it comes to... Any of the things, at all...
They treat people as badly as they treat the animals, there.
It's all about 'We are the top of the hierarchy of beings of the world and it is our birth right to do whatever we want whenever we want because we want...'
You listen to the 'best case' they can make as to why their animal research is necessary for scientific development or progress...
And it's jut not a very good case, at all.
Of course they don't treat animals that very much better.
The Australians threw a f*ck*ng tantrum of a hissy fit of a wilful misunderstanding of Peter Singer... Saying he was advocating that intellectually handicapped people should be euthanised like meat cows or similar... But Singer's point was that not even animals should be treated like that. Not people. Certainly. And not animals either.
The 'best case' sort of research they can come up with are the implanting electrodes in the brain because one day we want to implant electrodes in the brain of Parkinson's Patients. By way of our x-boxes in Sydney. That's the dream. To have a remote control person. I mean wouldn't it be fun to implant electrodes into the brain and have a remote control person? Important cutting edge scientific research, that... Mmm hmm...
Because... We don't have any values?
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