When is enough enough? I cannot even believe that they would even think to kill an individual that was part of an endangered species to salvage a human life. There are 7,038,044,500 people in the world. The IUNC believes there to be between 170,000 and 300,300 chimpanzees still existing on this planet. It looks as though maybe we should be sharing our organs with them? But chimpanzees have yet to start wearing white lab coats or attempt to overthrow the human population. So this makes their lives mean less? It is just mind boggling that since the year 1500, 800 known species have gone extinct and we would think to expedite yet another. It’s just not okay!

I think the part that bothers me the most about all the crazy tactics we come up with to extend our lives, is the fact that eventually we’re ALL going to have to die. I mean honestly, when somebody’s time comes, that should be that. I understand that that’s a very morbid way to think about it but it’s the truth. Everything that is living, will one day day. We have no right to decide to prematurely end some other beings life to temporarily cheat death. I’m all for using science and medicine to do this, because that is not a trade of a life for a life.

It’s incredible that we have fallen under such a dominant mindset that just because we have the ability to use whatever we’d like, that we’re entitled to. It almost makes me sick to my stomach that we could be so cruel. I think there are many moral lines that have been crossed and we need to come up with some sort of checks and balances system to keep each other under control so we don’t go too far. This has got to stop.

Below I have attached a link to an article that relates to a process that I believe crosses moral lines as far as how we are using animals to further science. Check it out!

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/06/02/1644154.htm