[marcinzm]

>Certainly if we hold these kind of ethics we've got no excuses if an advanced alien race wants to use us in their medical experiments.

If an advanced alien wants to use us in experiments, I doubt they'd care much about what we say on the matter. And for all we know, the aliens might come from a predator background and only consider vicious species as true equals.

[Zenbit_UX]

Just to drop you down a peg, I can invent a sci-fi scenario in which my point is made too: An advanced race views how we treat animals beneath us and decide to reciprocate as we are as far beneath them as mice are to us.

[0-_-0]

That would be like us slowly torturing cats to death just because cats do that to mice [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ZH3VzjZGU

[hymnsfm]

Humans have slowly tortured cats to death - far, far longer than the few minutes that a cat "plays" with a mouse: https://medium.com/@jasoncomely/the-terrible-truth-about-mod....

It's not even comparable.