Saturday, July 27, 2013

Vivisection

What are the outcomes of preforming this act on animals?
What does the public think of Vivisection? Is it encouraged? Or demonized?
Is it humane of us to treat these animals as experiments?




      In C.S. Lewis’s excerpt "Vivisection" the conflict of determining whether the act of vivisection which is the experimentation on animals is considered right or wrong. An issue we see in the world is animal abuse and what we can translate this could be to the mistreatment of your pet dog or the testing on live animals for research in disease, cures and mental studies. In this argument Lewis tries to define what we consider what is humane about vivisection, why we promote and justify what  is focused on here is what religious figures define an animal is and from there they determine why it is right to perform vivisection. They seem to conclude that these animals have no souls and there for are gives them the right.
        This is where Lewis puts in a good point in which if we consider animals as soulless that can open a discussion where we can people that we consider soulless. In my opinion I believe vivisection is inhumane and that the outcome is not worth the act. I agree on the fact that what Lewis sates that we how we lose out what we believe that makes us human. We perform this act on helpless animals for our benefit in which we infect them with malicious viruses which cause them pain and suffering. Lewis states that we choose the jungle and with that it brings out darkness inside us the longer we continue vivisection.





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