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Debate:Animal testing (redirect page) Debatepedia User Guide Community forum User talk:Militaru andreea Past Debate Digest topics User talk:Matthew.graham26 Debate: Hunting for sport Debatepedia:Editing tasks Argument: Animals are like vulnerable minorities that are voiceless to end abuses Argument: Animals are equal to humans in science as lifeforms on Earth Argument: Animal rights can be assigned according to animal psychology Argument: Killing animals should be viewed as equivalent to killing humans Debate:Animal Experimentation (redirect page) User talk:Elpis Argument: Medicines tested successfully on animals can prove toxic to humans Argument: Animal experiments have helped develop disease vaccines Argument: Animal testing has helped develop important drug treatments Argument: Differences between humans and animals can be accounted for in tests Argument: Animal experiments helped advance organ transplant techniques Argument: Animal responses to tests can be different than human responses Argument: Testing human cell cultures is an alternative to animal testing Argument: Animal testing often entails pain and stresses that skew results Argument: Genetically modified animals often contract genetic diseases Argument: Animal experimentation inherently involves harming animals Argument: The current scale of animal experimentation is unacceptable Argument: Animals experience pain and suffering in experiments Argument: There are adequate alternatives to animal experimentation Argument: Animal tests too infrequently lead to scientific advancements Argument: Animal experimentation protester violence has undermined their case Argument: Addiction researchers can rely on animals having no prior drug use Argument: The world has benefited hugely from medical research with animals Argument: Animals are good research subjects because they are similar to humans Argument: Animal environments can be better controlled for research than humans Argument: Animal experiments have helped improve heart disease prevention/treatment Argument: Animal testing is important in fighting HIV/AIDS Argument: Animal testing is important to the fight against cancer Argument: Animal experimentation is important to treatments of bacterial infections Argument: Animal testing and suffering is justified if it reduces human suffering Argument: Drugs for illnesses should tested on dying humans not animals Argument: Researchers often repeat animal tests only to maintaining funding Argument: Animal testing wrongly involves sentient, human-like creatures Argument: Human and animal differences do not justify speciism/discrimination Argument: Humans evolved from other animals; our history is not innately superior Argument: Animals deserve the same basic rights that humans enjoy Argument: The ends (human benefits) don't justify the means (animal testing) Argument: Animal testing frequently qualifies as cruel and unusual torture Argument: Animal testing creates a high demand for animals and depletes populations Argument: Animals are independent creatures that don't exist to serve humans Argument: Reform and regulation is not enough; animal testing must be banned Argument: Animal rights promotes the true science of humans and animals as kin Argument: Philosophy of compassion for animals is better than testing benefits Argument: Humans should ban animal testing selflessly, because it's moral Argument: Adopting the philosophy of animal rights is individual fulfilling Argument: Societies that adopt animal rights progress morally Argument: Preventing animal testing is beneficial to the environment Argument: Animal testing is contrary to principles of compassion and peace Argument: Humans must respect animal rights even if animals can't reciprocate Argument: Animal rights are connected with the broader human rights movement Argument: Animal testing has significantly improved human welfare Argument: Humans must give consent before medicines are tested on them - animals never give consent Argument: Animal testing does not benefit the fight against HIV/AIDS Argument: Prevention is ideal approach to HIV/AIDS; animal testing only helps treatment Argument: Animals denied rights for human-unlikeness are experimented on for human-likeness Argument: Humans are obligated to cause animals no pain or suffering Argument: Legitimate religions should uphold animal welfare Argument: Man must be merciful to animals to receive mercy from God Argument: Humans can do wrong so can be morally inferior to animals Argument: Animal testing may benefit human science, but costs human morals Argument: Animals should be treated as we would want to be treated Argument: God made animals free and does not want them imprisoned by men Argument: Animals feel and suffer in very similar ways as humans Argument: There is no alternative to animals in testing immunities Argument: Animal testing is more important now to human welfare than ever before Argument: Animals cannot possess rights because they have no moral judgement Argument: Alternatives are being used; animal testing is a last resort Argument: Animal tests proceed only when animal suffering is "worth it" Argument: Alternatives cannot replace animal testing for certain objectives Argument: Drug toxicity is rarely a result of any misleading animal testing Argument: Eating and hunting of animals does not justify testing; equally wrong Argument: Evolutionary science debunks the idea of human dominion over animals Argument: Humans have dominion over animals with a right to exploit them Argument: "Dominion" makes humans stewards; no right to harm/exploit animals Argument: Instances of mistreatment in animal testing are very rare Argument: People would never want their own pets tested; why other animals? Argument: Animal rights enjoy significant support even among conservatives Argument: Animal rights are gaining substantial ground in European laws Argument: The animal rights movement is showing great progress in America Argument: Modern humans have lost touch with animals and our likeness Argument: That animals harm/kill each other does not justify the same by humans Argument: Exploiting animals is more dignified than their living in the wild Argument: Humans have always eaten/exploited animals; it has evolved into our DNA Argument: If humans are animals, why defy our animalistic instincts? Argument: Animal rights reduce humans to mere animals, not made in God's image Argument: Animals cannot make moral claims so cannot claim rights Argument: That the retarded have rights does not justify animal rights Argument: Bible says harming animals is equivalent to harming humans Argument: Animal testing and farming is comparable to Nazi genocide Argument: Animals have emotions, personalities, and souls just like humans Argument: Humans and animals are of one family like brothers and sisters Argument: From a utilitarian perspective morality should not be based on species differences Argument: Killing animals undermines the dignity of life Argument: Animal life is equivalent in value to human life Argument: Granting rights to animals would damage human rights User talk:Clodagh Argument: Animals can't uphold human rights; we are not obligated to uphold theirs Debate: Wearing animal furs and skins SEO User talk:PhilipcNolan Debatepedia top 10 pro/con articles Debatepedia top 25 pro/con articles User:Winterstl Debate: Should harming animals in laboratory tests be banned? 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