Using animals to test the safety of products and to carry out scientific research has long been a contentious issue for decades. According to Orlans, F. Barbara (1993), “sixty percent of all the experimental animals were used in biomedical research and product-safety testing” (p.62). People seem to have different feelings for animals; many of them likely look upon animals as their soul mate whereas others might view animals as the essential resources for advancing the scientific research. No matter
Animal experimentation has been a widely discussed topic for years now, both by activists and scientists alike in order to determine whether it is pure cruelty or science. About 1.4 million animals die each year in animal experiments and such a number arises many questions regarding morale. Is animal experimenting morally right or wrong? While most of the people think that animals undergo painful suffering or death which is not justified by the the results the scientists get, others see it as the
Essay 4: Death Penalty There is an ongoing debate going on in the country wether or not the death penalty should still be used as punishment for criminals who have committed serious crimes, mostly those who have committed murder or something similar. Louis P. Pojman attempts to defend the use of the death penalty in his article titled “In Defense of the Death Penalty”. It was very interesting to read Louis' perspective on the death penalty. Pojman provided many reasons as to why criminals such