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Originally Posted by valo403
So what happens when we think we've discovered a wonder drug, let's say a cure for cancer, but we need to do trials on a couple thousand people to make sure it won't have drastic side affects. And let's say this happens fairly often, seeing as the success rate for pharmaceuticals is pretty low. Do we expand that to people convicted of lesser crimes? I mean they're morally culpable to right? Do we assign a lower status to certain social groups as well?
Do you even grasp the magnitude of what you are proposing? What an absolute ridiculous display of naivete.
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I suppose as well the real advantage to testing on humans is that they are capable of verbalising any side effects. Some of it must be guess work if an animal gets an itchy ear, or an intermittent stomach cramp, etc. And the main difference is that the human doesn't have to die at the end of the trial but the animal does.