Case Study Of Kantianism

. "No such Thing as Humane Animal Experimentation." The Ecologist, vol. 35, no. 1, 2005., pp.

But, as PETA unmasked the cruel treatment of the monkeys and got involved in the case, it resulted as being the first arrest and the conviction of an animal experimenter in the United States with charges of cruelty to animals. It also was the first confiscation of abused laboratory animals, the monkeys, and the first United States Supreme Court victory for animals in laboratories (PETA: Official Page). PETA made a huge difference.

Murder and abuse cases never fail to startle society. Moral codes are flouted with unmatched rigorousness by these indubitable egregious crimes. Sufferers in these cases are often people. Nonetheless, these callous obscenities should not be seen as less important when animals are the victims. Animals undergo horrendous abuse due to barbaric individuals, greed, and unnecessary lab testing.

The vision of infant monkeys, ranging from ten days to two months old, is surgically damaged and altered. As Lauren Gazzola, writer for the Washington Square News, stated, “Lynne Kiorpes’ strabismus experiments are a prime example of the unnecessary, cruel experiments being conducted on 50,000 animals in hidden laboratories every year at NYU.” (Animal rights and the University 1). The federal government for over a decade has in part, funded the research project. Lynne Kiorpes has spent over $1.5 million on her experiments, paving the way for weak claims and insignificant research.

In 1981 PETA went undercover in a Maryland research facility where they found the torturing of numerous Silver Spring monkeys. This became the first police raid to ever occur.

In 2010, investigators went into a zoo and filmed sick animals that were just left on the floor to rot at the Tweddle Farm Zoo. When they were all done they had to take sick rabbits to the vet to have their infection cared for. Along with their discovery of this zoo they found a monkey who was fed

There is very little question as to what action a strict deontologist would do in the scenario for this assignment he or she would unequivocally adhere to his or her duty. The more pressing question, of course, revolves around just where that duty lies. For a deontologist, that duty would lie with the job at hand and its responsibilities. As one who took an oath to only program software in accordance to the company that he or she works for which is essentially operating as an extension of the government that wishes the programmer to 'push the button' and destroy millions of innocent lives in World War II it would strongly appear that such an individuals would consider it his or her duty to effectively start World War III.

Cohen argues that not every single human meets the requirements for acting as a moral agent, but they all still receive rights (including the exemption from biomedical testing) because they are part of a collective group (Cohen 96). Animals do not receive rights because, as a whole, they lack the relevant prerequisites; he rests a large part of his argument on the premise that “…it is impossible for [animals], in principle, to give or withhold voluntary consent or to make a moral choice” (Cohen 96). The errant, questionable grounds behind this statement render an inherent double standard in Cohen’s reasoning. Animals have demonstrated altruistic tendencies of the kind Cohen describes. For instance, Frans de Waal illustrates the ability within monkeys and elephants to cooperate as well as demonstrate values of fairness and reciprocity through his experiments (“Moral Behavior in Animals” TED talk). As a whole, animals thus do not lack the relevant prerequisites that exempt them from being tested on for human

For years, scientists have experimented with animals to study how diseases and disabilities affect them. Take neurologist Thomas Gennarelli for example. Dr. Thomas Gennarelli used primates as test subjects. For a little bit over 15 years, he bashed primates to imitate head injuries in human beings. He believed the results of his experiments would be beneficial in the future on how we should treat head injuries. The team that worked for him recorded the data via videotapes. Unfortunately, as much as he tried, Thomas Gennarelli flopped and could not create duplicate head injuries. In 1984, participants of the Animal Liberation Front broke into the University of Pennsylvania’s Medical school and swindled the tapes that’s withheld the data from the experiments. They edited the tapes to show the most gruesome abuses of the primates and submitted it to People for Ethical Treatments of Animals. Peta then submitted it to Congress and the media. Participants of these experiments claimed they appease the primates with drugs, so they would feel not pain. The videotapes told a different story. Just before the hammer smashed their heads, the primates tried to escape. The researchers used foul language and performed unsanitary procedures upon the primates. They mocked and chuckled at attentive primates with broken arms. The National Institutes of Health analyzed the videotapes. Thomas Gennarelli was condemned of 9 charges such as unacceptable veterinary care and lack of guidance for the

The 1981 Silver Spring Monkey case has always been a foundation for Animal Rights Activists. Monkeys were left sitting in their own filth, deprived of food and water, and they had been put through horrible tests and surgeries all for the “sake of science.” Animal testing is wrong on so many levels. These innocent creatures do not understand why they are being put through such horrific conditions, the only thing these animals comprehend is the pain it brings them. Animal testing is cruel, ineffective, and unnecessary.

“Would we imprison our children in cages too small for them to move? Would we violate our sisters and steal their babies? Would we deliberately infect our friends with diseases and leave them untreated? Of course not so why would we do the same to animals? We must abandon the archaic and incorrect boundary of “human,” which we use to justify the ongoing massacre of billions of beings (PETA)”. According to the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, “There is an estimate of 100 million animals that are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in laboratory testing every year. “Most animals in laboratories never will experience fresh air or sunshine, only bars and concrete sound more like a prison well that’s just the beginning of what animal’s experience. There are few facilities that provide some outside caging, and they typically rotate the animals, giving them limited and infrequent amounts of time outdoors. Standard lab conditions, such as small, crowded cages, lack of enrichment, loud noises, and bright lights are all known to create stress in animals. When it comes to animals and their rights, there is a fine line between our needs and taking advantage of these animals just because we consider them to be inferior (NEAVS).”

In “Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason” Emmanuel Kant expresses his philosophical views on morality and religion. Kant believed that people tend to stray away from the morally just path and give in to evil temptations, often putting our own personal interests and gains first. Because of humanity's natural tendendencies to give in to sin, Kant believes that human beings are morally evil by nature. However he does find a solution to the problem of evil and sin by reinterpreting Christianity as a whole, and the role of Jesus Christ, who Kant believed was a model of true moral behaviour. For Kant, the battle between good and evil is a clash between moral ideals and immoral motives.

A nine-month undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States has revealed unlawful mistreatment of hundreds of chimpanzees and other primates at a federally funded New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) in Louisiana. The NIRC cages about 6,000 monkeys and 325 chimpanzees on its 100 acres which is a massive amount. The investigation reveals animals forced with anxiety and discomfort behind bars of this research facility. Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace which advocates improved welfare for and better knowledge of chimpanzees, primates, and other animals said, “In no lab I have visited have I seen so many chimpanzees exhibit such intense fear” (Humane Society). In 1900, close to 1 million chimpanzees lived in the wild, as of today there are as few as 340,000, which is an astonishing drop of population.

. "No such Thing as Humane Animal Experimentation." The Ecologist, vol. 35, no. 1, 2005., pp.

“At more than 1,000 laboratories across the country, monkeys are addicted to drugs, cats are deafened and have holes drilled into their skulls, sheep and pigs have their skin burned off, and rats have their spinal cords crushed.” We walk around in our cities, our nations, and our world, safe from the risk of having medical researchers put you in small cages, deprive you of food and run countless tests detrimental to your health. However, the same city, nation, world that you live in has “millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and other animals” (PETA) that undergo this maltreatment. Moreover, we have the means to stop this from happening. Those same laboratories have the capability of using science-based, non-animal testing with