Experiments: The Holicost Or My Lai Massacre

It is always said that animals are used for experimentation because genetically they are closest to human beings but if they are this closely related, why are we abusing and torturing them? This is affected ignorance. In her article, “Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering” Nancy Williams talks about different forms of affected ignorance. One form stood out more than others, “when people refuse to acknowledge the connection between their actions and the consequent suffering of their victims.” The experiments performed on animals are said to be beneficial to those animals, but studies have shown that animal testing could mislead researchers into ignoring cures and treatments. There are chemicals beneficial to human beings but harmful or ineffective to animals, such as aspirin (Akhtar). There are some medicines that have been tested on animals that provide benefits to these animals but when used in human testing, the results were less than great. For example, the drug thalidomide, which was a sleeping pill used in the 1950s, caused severe birth defects in ten thousand newborns. However, when the drug was tested on pregnant animals such as mice, rats, guinea pigs, cats, and hamsters there was no birth defects unless given at an extremely high dosage (Greek). The use of animals in experiments are unreliable when it comes to testing

As human, we are unarguably the prevailing species on earth. We can treat animals in ways we chose for the sake of science; but the question still becomes, it is morally or ethically right to cause an animal suffering for our benefit? At which stage do we justify our use of animals for experiments?

Human Society International has conducted many studies over the years and found that animals used in experiments are force fed , subjected to water dehydration and physical exhaustion, or inflicted them with burns and wounds, using other torturing methods to check that the medicines or anything that companies will sell us

In the book Omnivores Dilema by Michael Pollan says, " An animal with a permeant opening in its side used for research." This piece of evidence shows that animals are treated differently because humans want to research. If humans were the ones being tested, society would go crazy because it is considered "abuse" and murder if we kill humans for research.

​Cowardice. Lack of education. Immorality. These are only a few traits to describe the soldiers that went along with the My Lai Massacre in 1968. The My Lai Massacre took place during the Vietnam War in the southern village of My Lai. American troops were told to bomb and kill the “armed” and “dangerous” people of this village because it was believed to be “stronghold for forces of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, or Viet Cong” (My Lai Massacre). These American troops then continued to follow orders although the villagers, mostly women, children and elders, were in fact not dangerous at all. Later, Hugh Thompson, an American soldier, was able to end this massacre. Since then, many people have studied and read up on the brutal actions of the American

In the town of My Lai on March 16, 1968 was not a day you would be wanting to visit. U.S troops were ordered to conduct a massacre killing 500 plus innocent old men, women, and children.

The United States Army, is not necessarily known for having a positive reputation in handling prisoners of war, the My Lai Massacre is one of the clearest instances of military improperly approaching situations. Notwithstanding the fact that Company C entered My Lai with the intent of suppressing insurgents, the tragedy that took place on March 16, 1988 was in fact an act of mass murder. This notion will be examined through three different lenses to depict that in all angles of this incident only one scenario can be concluded; that the men in Company C were culpable of a mass murder. First, by examining the leadership ability of Lieutenant Calley and the Bystander effect of his company. Second, this will be examined under is the basis that

Animals are sitting in science labs, locked up in little metal cages like prisoners all across the country. They’re suffering from pain, hurting and aching from loneliness, terrified and more than likely hoping to be let free. Animals have a right to live and a right to be free, they shouldn’t be tested on. Something that has always wondered around in my mind is,

Therefore, the solution to stop animals from being mistreated and experimented on, we should turn to experimenting on humans and mistreating them purposefully. For instance, all of the homeless people we see on the side of the roads daily. They should be picked up and taken to a special island or place and have all kinds of different experiments on them. So we can try and find a cure for cancer and overload the homeless people we pick up of the roads and inject different types of drugs. If we inject all kinds of different drugs into them, we will be able to see the side effects and reactions to the drugs. Also, we should be targeting homeless single adults have much higher rates of serious mental illness, addiction

In addition to the fact that animal experimentation is ineffective, unreliable, and costly, testing on animals also violates animal rights. Do we think that just because we are superior to animals that we have the right to subject these innocent creatures to cruel and painful experiments? The superiority humans feel over animals may be the reason why humans feel less troubled by inflicting pain on animals. Or perhaps humans justify this cruel act by saying that animals would not be used in experiments if their use was not absolutely necessary. The pain and misery these animals are put through is absolutely unjustified, especially since the experiments they are subject to are proven to be unnecessary and even pointless. As Ingrid Newkirk states, animals in the laboratories are "under constant stress from fear, the loss of control over their lives, and the denial of all

Animal experimentation today is much different than it was 100 years ago, it is still changing today, and will continue to change forever. Keeping to a moral high ground is difficult if a milestone is close to becoming met, people get greedy or overly ambitious. Pushing aside ethics to achieve a result is a very common and many times it has been beneficial for the greater good. Drawing a line for professionals to not cross is the best thing to protect the rights of individuals and animals. Many experiments go on across the world that increase the well being of humans, some impact humanity more than others. People need to develop a moral compass to keep animal experimentation humane, laws are a perfect example for guiding research.

Have you ever heard the quote¨rules are rules¨,Well that's true because you have to live by some rules to survive and not go crazy and help your future self out a bit.I have rules to live by to help me get out of school and got to college and make a good job and just to not worry about what people have to say about me and not worrying about stuff.Living with rules can make your life a whole lot easier being able to look at a list of rules if you have a problem or need a explanation for what's happening and if you need help you can look at your ¨Rules¨ and be able to help yourself.

How is it that ensuring the safety of human lives can be perceived as immoral? It is difficult to understand that some people are more concerned with an animal’s quality of life rather than their own or a loved one’s. It is true that some experiments used to insure human safety may inflict pain upon animals, but how can it be that some people value the comfort of an animal over that of a human life. Vivisection is the experimentation on animals subjects and has often led to many significant scientific discoveries. Despite what may be believed by animal right activists, scientist do not conduct vivisection without reason; many experimental breakthroughs have come out of it, and it

Animal experimentation by scientists can be cruel and unjust, but at the same time it can provide long term benefits for humanity. Animals used in research and experiments have been going on for 2,000 years and keep is going strong. It is a widely debated about topic all over the world. Some say it is inhuman while others say it’s for the good of human kind. There are many different reasons why people perform experiments and why others total disagree with it.

Animal experimentation can sometimes be driven by curiosity, the belief that animals don’t experience pain or that humans have power over all other animals.