Is it morally right in a scientific experiment to chop off the heads of chimps and switch bodies?

Question

One of the chimps lived for an hour after the grueling experiment..

what other atrocities and barbarisms are done in the name of science, and where is the ethical
limitations,
or are there any in science?

orchidmg:

OH, But you are so wrong. This experiment WAS done and one of the chimps DID live for a full hour afterwards.

The "scientist" who did this was on TV on a forum about animal cruelty in science and he tried to state his experiments benefited science somehow,
he was booed by the entire theater audience until he sat down in humiliation.

queue: I think your ethics are very wanting for and short sighted.

first of all, leveling spraying flies with cruel experiments on primates is sickening moral relativism.

More cures and medications have been discoverd by testing on humans in trials rather than animals,
and animals are not always reliable,
what safe for the animal is not always for the human,
this is why some medications had to be immidiately taken off the market.

Sometimes it really is just a job to torture and kill animals and the work is absolutely fruitless and they know it.

workben: that is not the question at hand, or are you one of those religious types who dont' have any concept of weighing ethics either...

Sammer: Well, that's where you and I differ,
being as there are billions of people on earth and not nearly as many chimps.

I don't think people take priority and I don't think that we have any problem with survival at all....
This is where I get confused on the ethics of the nonreligious, the same people who complain there are too many people on earth, don't want any to die!
strange....

Answer 1

I agree with you, animal experimentation is sick......Start using child molesters instead.

Answer 2

Ewwww......well, there are plenty of things we would consider attrocities in science, some that do further medecine, and some that don't. If you were to get decapitated in an accident, and they were able to reattach your head successfully, and in such a way as you would be able to continue your life, and enjoy a high quality of life, which view would you have, as to whether it were an attrocity or not? I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just curious how it would effect you if such a thing would allow you to go on with your life? I will grant that the mad scientist approach of switching heads around is kind of bizarre, and I can't say I really understand what they think that will do for us in the future...Sometimes the only way to find out if a technique or idea will work is to try it on a living being, it's terrible that this sort of thing is done on animals, but if it saved my life, I would be grateful it could be done in the first place. We need to be grateful to animals for all they do for us, and honor them for thier sacrifices.
There are some lines that really shouldn't be crossed though, but to determine where the line is it's hard to tell sometimes, and sometimes we have to get to it before we can determine where the line needs to be drawn.

Answer 3

Face is the area that concerns because of the fact this is the area you particularly would desire to deal with all day- an accepted physique could suffice. I look to enjoy a stable physique too, yet particularly in a "yeah i could shag her" kinda way. Face remains what truly counts once you're thinking of a few thing severe. besides the shown fact that, a decrease than accepted physique is by no skill stable. One's defecit is made up for via character at that factor. An unattractive physique could be somebody who's extremely out of shape, disproportionate, has undesirable epidermis, etc. i don't provide extreme priority to boobs or butts, besides the shown fact that the two or the two are stable (ideally the latter in my own opinion lol)

Answer 4

It will very soon be possible to clone entire bodies, and so while somewhat repugnant, it is time for such an experiment to be made. People will want to have their heads transferred onto new bodies to extend their lives. The data obtained from the experiment will be used to improve the method next time.

If it comes to a choice between dying of a systemic cancer or getting a new body, I think many people would choose the new body.

As far as ethics go, the alternative to this experiment would be to try it on humans. Enough said?

Answer 5

Ok I love animals as much as the next person, I really do. If you don't agree with animal experimentation then you have to practice what you preach. That means never taking any kind of medication, using cleaning products, beauty products, surgical procedures.................The list goes on and on. I know it's horrible and seems barbaric but there's a very good reason why we test on animals and animals also benefit from the research. I agree with what you're saying though, limitations need to be set. I don't agree with the cosmetic side of animal experimentation as it's completely unecessary.

Answer 6

EEEW! heck no it isn't right. What is the purpose of this so called "experiment" Bull crap! these "scientists" are just looking for a way to spend their gruesome time. There should be limitations but obviously they don't follow them. Where are the animal rights people when we need them!

Answer 7

Most scientific experiments are done with more consideration for the welfare of the animals involved.

But, really, can you imagine where science would've taken us if we'd never tested anything on animals, especially medicine? I don't like to see animals hurt but people kind of matter more to me. That's like asking, is it morally right to spray flies with an insecticide just because they annoy you?

I see the killing of 200,000 people in Darfur or 200,000 people in Iraq by death squads as atrocities and barbarisms. If some chimp loses his head in an experiment, that's too bad, but nothing to get all worked up about.

Answer 8

As a society we have chosen to eat animals, and to have them as pets; so they are property. He managed to keep a head switched chimp alive for an hour? That is a remarkable breakthrough for humanity. If he perfect it, people with catastrophic injuries may survive because of full body transplants.

If whiping out every chimpanze on earth saved one human, I'd do it twice.

Answer 9

It is not right to torture animals, everybody knows that.

But are you a meat-eater? Have you any idea what goes on in the bioindustry? Do you wear make-up? Let's not even start on that. Wear leather?

Science certainly has research ethics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_ethics

Answer 10

There isn't much moral about science anymore. It is the secular humanist religion.