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ogist I feel in a way petent to assess such a claim. It is plain nonsense. Ethical Argument Are animals merely 39。things39。 which exist to be used by humankind? Do animals have rights? How should we treat animals? What kind of regulation should we follow? Researchers with a simple way of looking at the world will frequently argue that animals do not have any rights. When pushed they will explain that the sole purpose of animals is to make our lives easier. When pushed they will explain that the sole purpose of animals is to make our lives easier. The furthest they will go towards accepting that animals deserve to be treated with respect is to say that human beings share a responsibility to ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary suffering. The word 39。unnecessary39。 is, of course, impossible to define satisfactorily and very few active researchers will ever admit that any experiments have ever involved 39。unnecessary39。 suffering. We are awaken now! let us call for our rights! ? Animal is as important as human. Each life is precious to the one who is living it whether animal or human. And because animals have the capacity to suffer, it is wrong to inflict pain on them. Your brother or sister may be more important to you than someone you don39。t know, but that doesn39。t make it morally right to experiment on a plete stranger! ? If the experiment cannot be avoid, at least we should minimize the pain and suffering of those animals, by enriching the living condition, by providing the social interaction with others and by giving better daily cares. What we need is just better treatment and less suffering! ? Rend Descartes was one of the greatest thinkers of the seventeenth century and in history, but he had a few weaknesses. The biggest was probably his belief that animals had no conscious life, no desires, no feelings and no emotions because they had no immortal soul. ? If Descartes had spent just a little more time looking around him and a little less time trying to understand the secrets of the universe, he would have known that he was wro