Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, I confess that I had not thought of that. Very good point. BTW, my position on people being used in animal research instead of animals has become much more liberal in the past half hour after reading several private emails from irate pet owners. bless you all. Sam S Eric wrote: >Sam: > > >I implied the $5000 pet operation is >immoral because it's being spent on a beast rather than a human being. > > > >Much of the expensive pet therapy drives our understanding of what we can do >to humans. Some vets are actually at the cutting edge of new surgical >techniques. Fido's exotic $5000 surgery may seem immoral to you. Fluffy's >$6000 gene therapy may seem immoral to you. When one of your human loved >ones has something similar in another 10 years, maybe it won't seem too >immoral any more. > >If it's your money, you can decide how to spend it. If it's not, you can't. >:) > > >-- >Eric >http://canid.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >