I saw this being discussed on Reddit a while back and people were fighting on both sides between the arguments of cruelty vs contribution to society, and I want to hear a socialist perspective on this. The post was basically “why use rats for medical experiments when we have entire prisons full of child molesters?” Basically, people who have done horrible things and sentenced to death. Most pepple here seem to support the death penalty and people here even say things like “they deserve worse than death” all the time. So is using them for medical experiments that might cause severe suffering and/or kill them ever defensible even for people who have done horrible things?
because lab rats are born and raised for this. It’s their purpose in life. It might seem cruel, but they’re well cared for and certainly it would be much less ethical to experiment on humans.
As a biology lover I am quite defensive of medicine in general so take this with a grain of salt.