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Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists
FleaPlus writes "UCLA neuroscience professor Dario Ringach, known for his contributions to our understanding of how the visual system processes information, has been forced to give up his experiments by the actions of animal-rights extremists. Although he and his family had endured harassment and vandalization by animal-rights activists for years, Ringach reconsidered after extremists tried to firebomb a colleague's home and accidentally left their Molotov cocktail on an elderly neighbor's doorstep. Ringach sent an email to animal activist groups saying, 'You win... please don't bother my family anymore.'"
At least their sharpshooters didn't deliberatly target civilians and specifically civilian babies, as some Moslem terrorists recently have. There should be not grand debate if the Moslem freedom fighters were doing reasonable acts of wartime defense/aggression. Those groups take it for granted that the greater powers do not react with the same disregard for civilians, or else there would be towns and towns and cities of dead people as there were in the time of Rome's conquest when they wanted to supress "upstarts".
You heard the monkey say "no"? Did it sign a document saying it didn't want to? Did its family form a protest group outside the facility?
If you want to talk manurisms(it seemed the fear the needle or have an instinctive desire to get away), then the chicken I ate for supper probably didn't agree to having its head chopped off.
I certainly don't know of anyone who consented to have the HIV virus use their bodies to grow and propagate, but hell, the HIV virus went ahead and did it anyway.
In case you haven't noticed, Nature's a bitch. A real nasty woman. Frankly, that we even extend the courtesy of making the animal as comfortable as we are able is counter-intuitive and really unnatural(I'm glad we do, however).
As for comparing a monkey with children....either you don't have kids or they should have some pretty fucking low self esteem right about now. Do you think the monkey would care if we jabbed a sword through our chests? How bout if we jabbed one through its offspring's chest? I bet you it would care about that one. So are monkeys evil too?