Human and animal experimentation

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Human and animal experimentation

Advantages

  • Testing needs to be completed on humans, as this will provide more accurate reuslts.
  • Possible to recive feedback from from humans being experimented on. Therefore this can increase realiiblity of results.
  • Testing on humans will give population peace of mind. As people feel safer knowing that products have been tested on humans aswell as animals, thereofre population more likely to take drug.
  • Testing on humans can prevent disasters such as thalidomide
  • As well as saving humans from deformities, could also save lives in the future.

Disadvantages

  • By allowing expermiments to continue could lead a slippery slope
  • it is clear that governments have and could again experiment on their people in order to make advancements.
  • It seems unfair that in order to survive a person should have to risk thier life
  • This creates an unequal society where the rich have a better quality of life
  • it is clearly open to abuse in desperate situations

Evaluation

In conclusion human experiemtnation is unethical

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