Animals, ethics and experimentation for human benefits
Introduction
Since time immemorial, the concepts and definitions around which we work society vary significantly, and with these paradigms changes, our vision of the world also does, an example of this is the look we have of animals in our time, they have passed frombe instruments for our consumption by divine right to be subjects of law, so much so that some authors such as Peter Singer now call them non -human animals.
This clarity although it seems tissueequal to animals, among which we distinguish the biological and emotional:
Biological:
In our smaller biological characteristics we share an incredible amount of our similarities with animals, from humor changes, to our nervous system that regulates the way we perceive the world or feel pain, even the smallest of our genetic composition, inThe school is asked that we draw two cells the animal and the vegetable, each with important distinctions and different levels of complexity, but … I should not have been the only one to ask me the question: Where is the human cell? An innocent question but that reflects us in two way about what we consider an animal and what we call a human, I am sure that if we wonder about a human,
But even at a more general level, where animals are distinguished from each other by the series of evolutionary particularities that, according to Darwin, "have imposed the means in which we have adapted and evolved" such conditions, such as size, intelligence, form … etc.They vary from species to species, only one percent vary between chimpanzees and humans, a proportion that minimally has to raise questions, that is to say !Share 99% of the genetic code with another creature and yet to see it so alien to us, this must have a really important reason!
Emotional:
In 2018, the BBC publishes an article entitled: “5 emotions that are not exclusive to humans” where a series of investigations are used that result in five emotions that we share with animals, mainly with primates among which it stands outThe sense of justice, primates avoid working as a team when they are not offered the same conditions as the rest, or when they see that one of them specifically favors, this gives us notions of a way of economy that primates can haveLikewise there is a strong resent or desire for revenge when finding its past aggressors, the article cites an incident that occurred in India when a group of elephants invade a tribe looking for the body of a deceased female near the town, destroying everythingIn his path and making the settlers run through their lives.
Our similarities with animals give us more than enough reasons to understand what they happen, as they live and even if it is vague and little specific;get to imagine how they even feel more imaginative, their worldview.
Developing
In this analysis I also have to consider another element before venturing judgments and conclusions, our most significant differences with animals, among them it can be distinguished and briefly mentioning the main ones, the language that allows us to articulate abstract thoughts, transmit them and accumulate them, a kind ofCapitalizable memory that can be added and allows us to imagine a pink elephant with a hat riding monocycle without the need to have seen one (or at least, this humble writer, lacks that circus)
Another important feature to emphasize that it distinguishes us from animals is the cooperative character of our species, mainly based on the aforementioned language allows usYou must dedicate to get a birth certificate that as your name says it, serves to demonstrate that one was born or otherwise demonstrating that a person in effect died, had a burial being the latter the death certificate;A very useful tool to prevent the dead from voting to give a contextualized example in our beloved Colombia.
Finally, there are two elements that are brighter, can be grouped as one, art and culture, which we will understand as the human ability to receive a series of knowledge through their language and cooperate for its maintenance and modification, that is, it synthesizes both previous qualitiesThus allowing the construction of logical belief systems that can be added and allow the coexistence of the individuals of our species, in theory.
However, after this brief comparison between humans and the rest of the animals, which although even understood for many as an insult this word should become more aware and participate in an even greater sense of belonging. It makes us feel like anything, we lower us from a pedestal built for centuries of evangelization that biblical cloud that predicts a blank check to treat the ‘creation of God’ as an inexhaustible pantry and has put us in such environmental troubles has necessarily hadConsequences of other orders such as the only one that makes us use even among ourselves at different times.
Each era has had different suffering, with use comes abuse, where there is abuse there is a hierarchy this is where Hegel’s philosophy enters, which explains the origin of history as the confrontation of two wishes, of two consciences (although Hegel establishesA distinction between animal desire and human desire, however it is limited by its time)It is something that is outside himself, man wants desire, this confrontation between two consciences is to death, one of these must destroy the other, one of the two consciences is afraid because he is aware of that struggle that leads to destruction, avoidingHis own destruction ends up submitting the other.
Now this struggle that leads to establish hierarchies between human relationship modes have left different masters and different slaves throughout history, they have left a history of martyrs.
Each era has had different martyrs, the master submits the slave and imposes his tasks, thought, the master fattens while the slave forms and ends up affirming about the world, the master is confined to enjoyment and passivity, and the slave isWho affirms about the world and lives, who wins the struggle is the one who ends up trapped in a dialectical way and ends up being a thing.
This far from being a story of the father of German idealism is a metaphor that embodies all possible relationships that humanity can have, at its different moments evidence of that are the different holocausts, wars and political ideologies, which of different ways seekElimination of the other as a autonomous being although this demands its material and factual elimination, there are many tests throughout history the apartheid in Africa in a proof of this, two cultural historical consciences such as blacks and white settlers collide, there is an administration, a fight of powers where who appreciates life ends in submission to use.
But the most successful example that can come to me is that of World War II with the Jews, it is possible to devalue, make the other one thing that his death is something everyday in day to day, their lives were so disposable that noIt was enough with their submission, the German people and the Jew who have shared a land for centuries were irreconcilable, the Nazis sought the definitive destruction of their neighbors with a series of complex excuses were sought, I bring this example rightThat at the time they were considered animals among the speeches that the Nazi propaganda ministry devised for its elimination, what if we invest the premises? Not to see the Jews as animals, but the animals as suffering, the Jews of our time,
The war threw progress, that is indisputable but also at the ribs of innumerable barbaries, we cannot deny the fork of rationality. Rationality can and often produces irrationality, it is in times of barbarism that science thrives, because in the manner of Machiavelli: "the end justifies the means" in order to demonstrate a superiority and assuming its existence is submitted to all kinds to all kindsOf possible vexations, human creativity once again fails that.
If we put this look on animals we see that it has not been the exception, however, with a difference, this was the first way of life that we submit and the one we still submit for our daily living, the constant destruction by all the means of animals of the animalsIt allows our comfortable maintenance in this world, we eat its flesh, we dress its skin, it seems logical that we also use its workforce for different purposes, even now they are also a company creature that we force to live with us.
conclusion
History must advance their martyrs, in the case of women they have allowed development as a species when supporting the young and keeping home afloat, animals and all kinds of suffering that are now sacrificed for the sake of progress and experimentationScientist will have her recognition as consciences, it will not be tomorrow because history moves in time, usually late but one day will allow us to say that we recognize the error, which we have established by abusing everything abused.
The environment is another suffering of such magnitude, and to answer the question of whether ethical experimentation in animals is ethical, it is not, but it is something accepted by our time, it is not as if as individuals we were in full capacity toMaking change only with our will, a turn of our desires is not enough to achieve transformation as some multinationals wantThey will even remain of the worst conditions and the darkest moments to which humanity has been subjected, the darkness product of the torture used by the Catholic Church left us with great information about how to make very complete gears now present in all our machines.
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