Quite difficult a topic this. However, in a moral crisis, we can't but be taking sides for "..the hottest place in the hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in a moral crisis" (some say this is a quote by Dante Alighieri, and some say this quote never appeared in his works, but is an interpretation given by JFK who had a great liking for this quote)..
Is it not to cruel to do this to those closest to human beings? Please read on..
Is it not to cruel to do this to those closest to human beings? Please read on..
In the animal kingdom, you can't get closer to humans than chimpanzees since we share around 99 percent of the same DNA. For proponents of animal testing, that genetic proximity makes chimps prime "human models" to help find cures for the viruses and diseases that plague us. On the other hand, because they exhibit remarkably human traits, opponents believe testing and captive research represent forms of cruelty....
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Unfortunately, research is the place where concern for humane feelings and ethics are least taken into account. The kind of research done in any Indian university, be it in the scientific field or humanities, stay with in the four walls of the university, andnever reaches the common man, if it is of any significant use. then comes the fundamental question of pampering the ego of your superiors and the die hard compettion and back biting of your colleagues and contemoporaries. withstanding all, even after you finish , all dictums of democracy, egalatrianism, etc, that one emulate at the time of university life, become wasted in a society, which either does not respond well to 'the intellectuals' or the so called 'intellectuals' themselves erase thir values to tread the easier path of flowing with the current of the society. Researchers, more or less, are significant burdens who are parasitical or rendered ineffectual in life.
Notes from experience, i am a researcher myself, who does not flinch to say "mea culpa" to the tax payers of the society.
I'd tend to agree with you - particularly the first part of your comments. However, your 'mea culpa' not withstanding, have a feeling that the last part, or rather the concluding sentences, of your comment warrant a re-look. Not being on the side of research myself, save and except for a 3 years' stint on a project on social sciences a decade or more ago, can't really vouch for either side of it really..'Rendered ineffectual' - yes more or less correct - but parasitical? Don't know really..But I can't agree with you more on your other observations..
may be I am haunted by an unnecessary guilt, :-)
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