Use Of Animals In Scientific Research; Cloning

Question 1

Use lf animals in scientific research; cloning

Answer 1

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Question 2

Nml

Answer 2

If the status of the animals are no greater than being human property , then the use of animals in scientific procedures is not in itself immoral, particularly as experiments may develop cures for a variety of human diseases.
If the animal dies due to scientific procedure that is acceptable for aquinas.
Also acceptable to catholic church.

The use of scientific procedures to cure terminal diseases in humans would fulfil the pp to preserve human life.

Given the enormous potential of animal cloning to change the very nature of animal species, Aquinas would probably condemn all such procedures since each specie was created by god to fulfil its purpose as that species.

Unjustified abuse? Causes distress and pain
“animals who are without rational souls”

Question 3

S.e

Answer 3

•fletcher advocated the use of animals in scientific procedures as the means to an end of human welfare,
and as a pragmatic way of saving human lives by the development of vaccines for the major diseases that cause so much human suffering.

• The agapeic end of human welfare is achieved by the means of animal testing. The end justifies the means.
• some argue, however, that it can never be loving to subject an animal to the kinds of testing thst experimentation requires.
• individuals are required to make up their own minds, and this may involve element of risk depending on the agapeic calculations that people make in diff situations.

Question 4

V.e

Answer 4

•aristotle himself used animals in his own scientific researches, so quite clearly he would regard such procedures as compatible with a virtuous character.

• moreover, aristotle insisted that the highest thing in us is reason, that is, our intelligence to do science, to discoverwhat the world is rlly like, and there can be no achievement of reason greater than that.
Using animals in our scientific procedures extends our intellect and increases knowledge and so is virtuous on that level.

• moreover the benefits of scientific research include the ability to develop drugs and medicines to control diseasessuch as HIv/AIDS and cancer.
The same It’s true with animal cloning, which has potential for controlling specific diseases and conditions in animals, thereby improving animal health.
Compassion directed towards humans might therefore suggest that using animals for such research is morally good.

Question 5

V.e

Answer 5

However, one of the biggest objections to using animals for scientific experiments is that animal pain is not always properly controlled, primarily bc some researches do not care about the suffering of the animals.
This shows a lack of compassion.

Other virtue ethicists would object that the use of animals in scientific research is not compassionate at all.
It is obviously done without consent of animals; there is no regulation to avoid experiments being duplicated in different parts of the world; and there are now a number of technologies that are at least as effective as the use of research animals..

Rosalind hursthouse argues that experiments on animals are not necessary; the benefits of these experiments are out of proportion to the suffering they cause;

«The evidence of compassion and the avoidance of vices, involves focusing on the good of the other animals is something worth pursuing, preserving, protecting etc»