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After all the indignities that have been done to animals by man since the beginning of time, itseems ridiculous to even ask if transplanting their organs into humans can ever be justified.Man has enslaved most animals except the wildest. Animals serve (1)
his
every need: asbeasts of burden, as performers, as pets and especially as
food.
It seems so logical toassume that it is justifiable to do anything to animals. If that is the case, then by serving asorgan donors to man, and dying in
(2) the process,
the animals are certainly serving ahigher purpose-albeit unwillingly than dying to be man's
food.
Studies reveal that man wasoriginally vegetarian. Then he started to eat meat. After that he started to kill for the pleasureof (3)
it.
His target: defenseless animals. If all he wants is
food,
all his needs would besatisfied through farming.
(4) That
never seems to be enough, so he has to eat exotic foodand hunt down wild animals. Animals have been used in scientific testing for centuries now.This is true not only for medicines but also for other purposes like the effects of cosmeticsand smoking tobacco. Armies also use animals to test the effectiveness of their weapons. Asfellow inhabitants of the earth, is this what they deserve? If we can do
(5) such acts
mercilessly, then transplanting animal organs into ourselves seems to be a lesser
evil.
Butthen why do evil at all?
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5.histhe processitThatsuch actsReferent(5 marks)
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