ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES
ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES

Summary/Abstract: We absolutely cannot say that the experiments on animals are ethically justified. Proponents of the thesis of ethical justification take the usefulness and consequences as the principles and arguments in favor of their thesis, that is, their contributions to medicine or, on the other hand, the difficulties that we would have with their non – enforcement. There is no doubt that the experiments are both useful and justified, but simply not ethical. The proponents of such experiments and this way of working also know how to talk about number of drugs that have been discovered for animal diseases precisely thanks to these animals. This fact, being true, leads to the conclusion that these experiments are necessary which leads to the question why should they not be conducted on humans and for their own good? Some would say this is excessive, but would they not be using double standards then? If we cannot equate animals with humans, the cause being the ultima ratio, why do we attach so much inherent value and respect to babies, children and the mentally ill people more than to animals?

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