RE: Sodamoca

Allright, I'm ignoring the god debate. I understand that this is a topic
that requires more close contact with the debaters to be useful to
anyone.

One rationalization for being against animal testing is that it's used for
testing things such as toxicity of a chemical. You put some gas in the
air for rabbits and rats to breathe and see how much of that gas do you
need there to kill 50% of the test animals. Ofcourse, all are killed after
each test, because they are no longer useable as test subjects. Then
again, you'll note that different animals respond to different chemicals
in a different way. Some bugs die of a pesticide whereas others wont
and this goes for bigger things as well. This is why I'm against animal
testing, but back to our topic:

Stem cell research can give us(=humanity) something more applicaple
and useful that will help make lives of disabled or injured humans worth
living. And I think there's already quite alot of human life around here
mostly destroying the planet either by spending in luxuries or doing
desperate things in poverty such as cutting off the last of 'em trees in
a rain forest to keep warm at night. I think we should focus on those
that are already here and make sure that those that come after us can
have a life worth living.

It is also interesting that many religious people consider the life POTEN-
TIAL to be more important than ACTUAL life.

Quality, not quantity and some of us(humans) may survive this millenium.