Vivisection

1. Is there ever going to be a right side on the subject?

2. Should we even test on animals?

3. Are there even other ways to test certain products without the use of animals?

2) I will be answering questions 1 and 2. In his essay, C.S Lewis mentions the different views on the rights and wrongs of vivisection. But is ever going to be a correct side. Like he mentioned in the beginning. Advocates for vivisection will show you pictures of those sick and weak so get you to believe that what they are doing is for the better good. It gets you to feel bad and makes you want them to find ways to help those people. But then the other side counters with pictures of abused and injured animals that have gone through testing and then it makes you feel bad for them. They both play on a pathos aspect of rhetoric that just ends up canceling each other out.
I guess the real question remains that if we should even do testing on animals. Even I am torn on the subject. On one side, the help we get from testing certain products on animals makes it many times safer for human use and in turn helps people in a lot of ways. On the other side, I feel as though the torture of those animals that can't really defend themselves of such treatment is completely wrong. I feel as though there should be certain testing that should be allowed for the betterment of mankind. Obvious pain inflicted on the subject should not be allowed. But these are all from my own point of view. I feel as though I am looking at it as a biased point of view because all I can think of is my own dog being a test subject.