Upvoted because anecdote made me laugh. Not having object permanence must be so confusing!
I agree with your stance here, and I’m self-admittedly probably one of the very few people on the site who extends ethical weight to the mindstates and experiences of nonhuman animals—not all experiments are necessarily harmful, and some research in primatology is relatively benign.
Same time, it takes a certain kind of obliviousness to deny that these beings suffer horribly, on a routine basis, in the course of much research. I’ve got a friend in primatology who calls it “nightmare stuff”—the kinds of invasive and painful experiments conducted even today are frightening, and chimps have very long lives.
Upvoted because anecdote made me laugh. Not having object permanence must be so confusing!
I agree with your stance here, and I’m self-admittedly probably one of the very few people on the site who extends ethical weight to the mindstates and experiences of nonhuman animals—not all experiments are necessarily harmful, and some research in primatology is relatively benign.
Same time, it takes a certain kind of obliviousness to deny that these beings suffer horribly, on a routine basis, in the course of much research. I’ve got a friend in primatology who calls it “nightmare stuff”—the kinds of invasive and painful experiments conducted even today are frightening, and chimps have very long lives.