Reply #154: that is correct [View All]

[DrunkenMaster]

You CAN tell a lot about a person if they are willing to excuse the needless torture of living beings under the pretext (and it IS a pretext -- do a little research and you will discover very quickly that a large percentage of animal tests are useless and may actually be contributing to our misperceptions about the ways diseases function in humans)that it will either save or improve human lives.

That's such a nice reduction to absurdity you use -- its the same one Rethugs use to smear environmentalists. Why do you HATE humans and want to sacrifice our way of life to save the whales/wolves/polar bears, etc? You stupid hippy! How dare you put animals/the environment before the improvement of human life? How stupid you are!

Seriously, are you so f**king deaf and dumb that you don't f**king realize it's a false dichotomy? It doesn't have to be one or the other, it MUST BE BOTH: HUMANS AND ANIMALS, TRUE PROGRESS AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOR.

Every time someone posts an animal rights thread here the results are disgustingly predictable-- just like Free Republic's response to anti-Bush activists: kneejerk, idiotic and ill informed crap masquerading as sound opinion.