2009-01-04
2008-11-21, are vegans hypocrites???
Veggies are very much against animal experiments and, as a consequence, against medical research and all the drugs developed that way. But what if a veggie himself actually needs them? Well…
I consider myself vegan and I′m totally against animal experiments but I do take a variety of drugs that I need for my well being. They may or may not be tested on animals as I′ve taken [...]
This is from 
veganforum.com, from a thread titled “Does taking non-vegan medicine make me a hypocrite?”. This is how it goes on:
My justification for taking medicine is that I need them and I really can′t help the fact that they may have been tested on animals. I′m sure it did nothing but waste money and not taking these drugs won′t bring the animals back.
This is of course bullshit: If I take drugs that have been developed in the course of human experiments like they did in Nazi concentration camps, not taking these drugs wouldn′t bring them slayed prisoners back either. Does that justify the Holocaust? But this conclusion would imply logical thinking, but you can′t expect such a thing from veggies:
No, you are not a hypocrite. …
I don′t beleive you are a hypocrite, …
I don′t think you′re a hypocrite, …
… just do what you can and stay healthy. …
I agree with everyone here. …
Please DON′T regard yourself as a hypocrite! …
That′s what the other veggies have answered in this thread. One even justifies this hypocrisy as follows:
Vegans avoid animal products as far as is practical. There is an alternative to cruelty-derived food and clothing, but not medicine. If you are sick then you must take medicine.
But of course there is an alternative, this alternative is not to take those drugs, no matter the consequences! Because if I only could survive taking drugs that are a result of forced human experiments,1 the only logical conclusion is not to take them, even if that means that I must die.
If I should agree that other humans may be forced to die just for my survival, this would mean that there are certain criteria deciding which human life is worth living and which is not, a pattern of thinking that has consequences unfortunately no longer beyond description, because the descriptions are well available in our history books and historical documents about the time of National Socialism and the Holocaust. It is no overstatement to say that there are very strong ethical reasons against such criteria.
But, you know, veggies have a strange attitude towards “ethics”, it seems that that word only gets important when they want to tell the rest of the world how evil they are, but do not apply if their own lives are at stake.
So, are those veggies hypocrites? Of course not, man! How can anybody even think that…?
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Footnotes:
1: Actually, there are human experiments, but all those people volunteer for that, and they are only the last step in a long procedure of research, of course including animal tests.
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