I've never really understood the anti-research crowd's position. They tend to be ok with harming humans, as long as no animals suffer? If ever there was a counter-survival instinct, that is it. If instead, they used all that time, energy, and money supporting human causes, we'd be that much further ahead of the curve. There might be one less oppressive regime in power, there might be that much more tolerance for differences in religion, race, class, ect. Hell, with all the medical research these groups target, we might just have found an AIDS cure, or some nifty tumor busting pharma, but no...
I've gotten in to it with a couple of groups before, but strangely, never over my research. I fully believe this is because cephalopods aren't offically on the "cute" list.
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Date: 2006-06-02 04:15 pm (UTC)I've never really understood the anti-research crowd's position. They tend to be ok with harming humans, as long as no animals suffer? If ever there was a counter-survival instinct, that is it. If instead, they used all that time, energy, and money supporting human causes, we'd be that much further ahead of the curve. There might be one less oppressive regime in power, there might be that much more tolerance for differences in religion, race, class, ect. Hell, with all the medical research these groups target, we might just have found an AIDS cure, or some nifty tumor busting pharma, but no...
I've gotten in to it with a couple of groups before, but strangely, never over my research. I fully believe this is because cephalopods aren't offically on the "cute" list.