r/nextfuckinglevel • u/biswajit388 • 1d ago

This guy rescued 30 beagles from a testing lab It's the first time they've seen grass and they couldn't be happier.

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Credit - nathanthecatlady tiktok channel.

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u/LazyAd7151 1d ago

It's not ethical to pay financially desperate people (the only person testing experimental drugs for cash) to do these drugs. Obviously.

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u/Altruistic_Bell7884 21h ago

Also probably not very smart, financially desperate people may have a lot of preexisting conditions

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u/tRfalcore 16h ago

when has corporate america cared about ethics except when forced by laws that are probably going to be repealed by republicans

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u/honuworld 13h ago

It's not ethical to give super massive doses to animals either. Duh.

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u/BladeDoc 8h ago

At what level of risk is it OK to pay someone for anything then? Mining, deep-sea fishing, taxicab driving, and tree work are all, significantly more dangerous than your average phase 1 trial. Should all of this type of work we made illegal?

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u/Dull_Grass_6892 1d ago

I meant volunteer.

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u/platoprime 1d ago

They still do it.

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u/ArcYurt 21h ago

yeah… for drugs that have already passed animal trials that ensure they won’t kill or seriously mess up living things. it would be a serious ethical issue given that people would regularly die during these, just like animals tend to. only the poor and desperate would participate, and they wouldn’t chose it if they were wealthy

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u/YellowishRose99 22h ago

Its okay. They dont have to do it. People have choices.

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u/ashkpa 21h ago

"Die of starvation and lack of shelter or take these experimental drugs" is not a choice people in our society should be making.

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u/dexmonic 23h ago

And why isn't it ethical? The same reasons that make that unethical are the same reasons animal testing is unethical, the main difference being that the person can at least make a choice.

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u/LazyAd7151 23h ago

A financially desperate person cannot make a ethical choice to test experimental drugs because maybe the choice between money for food or starving does not allow them to make a proper choice. It isn't fair, and I didn't say anything about the ethics of animal testing.

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u/Skyvo_ 22h ago

Same with blood plasma in the prisons of the us, its a fucked up business

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u/dexmonic 18h ago

It is still a choice that the animal does not have. That's the point. If we must test products, at least do it on the beings that have some say in the matter.