Re: Animal dissection in classrooms - should it be happening
Posted by: 'becca on 10/25/09
Wow...this has obviously become a right wing vs. left wing conversation and
doesn't belong on this board. Have a nice life...I won't be responding to
your rants again...and, yes, I would give up my property to save a frog (I
am a science teacher after all)...
On 10/25/09, Down With Peta wrote:
> On 10/24/09, Teresa wrote:
>> You have no understanding of how to balance..how the left balances the
>> right. Your statements show you have no understanding of how badly
>> the animals were treated before PETA and the Humane society came into
>> focus. The two opposite extremes balance each other out. Cancer
>> Research would be FAR less effective if we did not have an
>> ethical "policing" of treatment policies. I speak from experience,
>> stressed out animals do not model disease well.
>>
>> You are writing as a person who sees only the negative side of life.
>> Can't both sides be a little right? Why do you have to jump to the
>> opposite extreme? Take some time and think about what you are saying
>> before you write it.
>>
>> Gun control does not equal no guns
>> Abortion rights does not equal abortions for everyone
>> Saving one tree does not mean you have to save them all
>>
>> Take a deep breath before going down the slippery slope for all your
>> statements. No one likes to be around people who cannot see both sides
>> of an issue...breathe...
>>
>
> Wow you sure seem to know a lot about me considering you have never met me.
> I stand by my statements. PETA as an organization, and most
> environmentalist groups have become very radical. That is a fact, they
> themselves live on the extreme bringing frivolous lawsuits against
> individuals which deny them their property rights. Now tell me that isn't
> a fact. You say that abortion for some doesn't mean abortion for all. Well
> yes, in a legal sense it does. We are not talking about legal rights here
> we are talking about ethics. Now tell me it isn't hypocritical and
> unethical when a person spends his/her waking hours fighting to take away a
> persons property rights to save a frog but then advocates a woman's right
> to kill her unborn baby at will. This is certainly more of a direct
> comparison than your comparison of cancer research vs. PETA. Nonsense!
