Physical Pain

Based on analyzing both positions on the issue, my position is towards the counterpoint position. To further clarify my position, I have two questions about the issue. The first question states, in what ways are the alternatives for testing medical research been successful? I believe this is an important question to analyze and research about because even though the opponents state, there are alternatives used in multiple laboratories, it is important to know whether these are successful. The second question states, does the equal amount of physical pain inflicted on animals similar to humans? I ask this question because animals sense physical pain as humans do, therefore, there must have been a research done to answer this question. Creating different alternatives began in the 1970s through 1980s, which resulted to control animal experimentation based on the concept of the
However, it was never directly researched upon to confirm our views other than indirect observation. In this research, Harrison (1991) answers the question of whether animals feel pain by three different research arguments to demonstrate that animals feel physical pain. The first argument stated that animal behaviors gives us a clue as to what animals are feeling. The next argument discusses the similarities between animals and human beings by their structure and function of the nervous system. He also discusses how species experience the external environment in similar ways. The last research argument is based from an evolutionary theory that implies there is no radical discontinuity between humans and other species. Physically pain is essentially a defense mechanism for species to help avoid those things in order to gain higher chances for survival and reproduction. These three arguments are then researched and observed thoroughly to completely understand the question of whether animals feel