The Harmful, Nontherapeutic Use of Animals in Research Is Morally Wrong by Nathan Nobis

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The Harmful, Nontherapeutic Use of Animals in Research Is Morally Wrong

Nathan Nobis

Abstract: It is argued that using animals in research is morally wrong when the research is nontherapeutic and harmful to the animals. This article discusses methods of moral reasoning and discusses how argu- ments on this and other bioethical issues might be defended and critiqued. A basic method of moral argument analysis is presented and used to show that common objections to the view that “animal research is morally wrong” fail: ie, common arguments for the view that “animal research is morally permissible” are demonstrably unsound or in need of defense. It is argued that the best explanations why harmful, nontherapeutic research on human beings is wrong, ie, what it is about humans that makes such experimentation wrong, apply to many ani- mals as well. Thus, harmful and nontherapeutic animal experimentation is wrong for reasons similar to the reasons that harmful and nonthera- peutic human experimentation is wrong.

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