[Scandiravian]

We could do that, but the amount of preventable suffering that decision would cause, to me, makes that a bad decision.

I'm sure an argument to stop research in lifesaving medicine is easy to rationalize if you're in a privileged position where you don't have to deal with your children dying from malaria or being born with HIV, your elder family members slowly disappearing to Alzheimer's, or your partner's body withering away to cancer

[null_shift]

I have had to deal with at least one of those things. It still doesn’t change my opinion.

I feel that it is ethically wrong to enslave and torture animals for humanities benefit. If that means that I will die from a disease that would have been prevented otherwise, I can accept that. I don’t feel it is right for me to impose suffering on another sentient being for my own incremental benefit.