Re: Animal Research
HT,
Whoops, didn't mean to not respond to you last post. I didn't mean to imply that you were using vagueness to support your claim, you are definitely right that it often seems OK to trust our instincts in vague cases. This works really well in deciding what a chair is, or what a heap of sand is [good ole Sorites paradox]. But I think more is demanded in the case at hand.
I think you explained why people are cool with rats and not babies very well, but I still think that another explanation is wanted. If there is no satisfactory explanation, one mustn't necessarily conclude that we should start testing on babies and try to make it happen but at the very least I think you should be less happy with your intuition that rats are cool and babies are not and give the problem some thought [if it interests you, of course].
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