Soudabeh Sabour

Prof. Brown

English 1B

July 26, 2013

           

                                                              A Discussion that Never Ends

As a child grown up with kittens, I would never think of taking a poor animal’s body apart, especially a cat. I love animals of any kind, but when in my anatomy class I did skin the poor kitty and dissected him, I found out how much it is important to use animals to improve medical field.

I know it might seem evil, but I think life is not romantic as we may expect. It is totally wrong if one thinks that no one should ever suffer in life. It is the nature of life that those who are more powerful will exist and the rest will be gone. Life is a mixture of pain and joy. We just have to try to make it more joyful. We cannot delete pain from our lives. so we have tried to reduce the pain suffering throughout the history. It is a matter of benefit and cost. If we stand the pain of dentistry, it is because we want to avoid a more severe pain later. So it is for a good reason.

            I do not agree with the Christian idea that animals have no soul. They might not have as developed motor nervous system to feel pain as we do, but everything in nature in my opinion has a soul. I also don’t like we humans are more worth than many sparrows. I accept humans are the most powerful animal but not more worth. It is our power and need to survive to take advantage of other species.

            It is a very unfair beneficial interpretation of the soul of animals among some people. This is only playing with words to justify what people do. There are always people to criticize others.