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Nowadays animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Some people argue that these experiments should be banned because it is morally wrong to cause animals to suffer while others are in favour of them because of their benefits to humanity.Discuss both views and give your own opinion.----------------------------------------------------------------------
Taking advantage of animals to examine the effect of new medicines or other products has opened an intense debate over the past few decades. While there are numerous arguments for and against this action, as far as I am concerned, a compromise would be an entirely reasonable and justifiable solution.
On the one hand, animal experimentation has helped scientists create safety products for people and contributed to the development of science. In fact, although every new pharmaceutical has been well researched before putting on for people, there always exist latent hazards which cannot be aware of at all. This could lead to serious effects if such medicines were provided to patients without any checks on living body. Therefore, testing medicines on animal would minimize and anticipate the dangers that could happen before applying it for people. Additionally, the study of science demands sacrifices as well as the purpose of science is to serve human beings after all. Then, if animal testing is totally necessary, people should still do so.
On the other hand, animal testing has several upsides and ethical aspects that people need to take in to account. Firstly, animals are living creatures which have their own emotions and feel the same pain, hurt, and joy as people. Thus, it is considered morally wrong to use them in this way solely for human benefit. Secondly, animals are not completely identical to people in terms of structural biology. The reaction of drug in an animal’s body would be quite different from that in people. Therefore, success in animal experiments does not equate to human safety, not to mention that many of these tests have no real-life purposes and may never be used for anything useful. Consequently, the use of animal for scientific research is believed to be not only a cruel practice, but merely a waste of time and money.
In conclusion, animal experiments should be conducted in a humane way following by a set of strict rules. The line between science and morality sometimes is hard to define, which means emotion may be the ultimate determining factor in this conflict.
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