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November 06, 2005
Kill A Human, Save A Rat
I don't think I'd have a problem with this formulation from, say, a rat. But when a human urges this particular tradeoff of human lives for rat lives, I have to object:
Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that killing medical researchers was "morally justified" to save laboratory animals.
He made his comments while defending a similar statement, made to the news media last year: "I don't think you'd have to kill β assassinate β too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives."
Upside: James Inhofe promises greater emphasis on prosecuting these anti-human thugs.