I think the worst thing I've ever done was work in a neuroscience lab that experimented on animal subjects. The research output was practically worthless and the protocols were ghastly.
spin it in the other direction we're missing out on lots of medical research with restrictions on human subjects why not use prisoners as test subjects? think of all the advances we're missing out on with crummy animal models
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if your objection is "but animals aren't humans" that's fine but I don't share the premise that there's a moral qualitative difference
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I wouldn't really say it's qualitative, either. I can easily imagine a species being too close to whatever special thing it is we have for this to be acceptable. I'd likely even place canines and cetaceans in that category already. A quantitative difference, on the other hand...
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I would categorically oppose that, because it had completely different ethical problems which have far greater direct impact on people's lives.
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