2008-10-23, 05:13 PM
This is kind of funny because I actually did Asche's experiment on my psychology class the other day...
I pretty much draw the line on a direct negative impact on the ability of a reasonably intelligent creature to live. Reasonably intelligent creatures, to me, would mostly be higher forms of mammals. The only exception would be when a creature similar to a human would be needed to save a human life. For example, sending the monkeys into space before people is OK in my book.
Really though, the pursuit of discovery in science is extremely important and it should be among the highest priorities. There are many cases where things that wouldn't normally be allowed are for the sake of knowledge, and that's completely acceptable. I guess now I'll just wait for someone to come back with some ridiculous and clearly inappropriate example for me to say "That's not what I'm talking about."
I pretty much draw the line on a direct negative impact on the ability of a reasonably intelligent creature to live. Reasonably intelligent creatures, to me, would mostly be higher forms of mammals. The only exception would be when a creature similar to a human would be needed to save a human life. For example, sending the monkeys into space before people is OK in my book.
Really though, the pursuit of discovery in science is extremely important and it should be among the highest priorities. There are many cases where things that wouldn't normally be allowed are for the sake of knowledge, and that's completely acceptable. I guess now I'll just wait for someone to come back with some ridiculous and clearly inappropriate example for me to say "That's not what I'm talking about."