Pros And Cons Of Abolitionists
Emma Rothermel
BioPsych Extra Credit Essays First Exam (#1)
10/6/15
Extra Credit Essay about Abolitionists and Minimalists #1
Hannah,
I know how you feel about ethical position in research because I have known you for 22 years since you are my older sister. Specifically, in terms of animal testing for scientific studies, I know how strongly you are against testing and harming animals for the benefit of humans. I wanted to let you know that you are not alone, and in fact there are ways to use animals in testing without doing harm to them. In the scientific field, you would be known as an ‘abolitionist’. By favoring firm ideas that all animals have the same rights as humans and any animal use for testing is completely unethical, you prefer …show more content…
Remember how you felt in the plane when the door opened and you were on the very edge about to jump out? The feeling of your stomach dropping, a rush of alertness, shaking, and an accelerated heart/lung pattern should ring some bells for you. Well those ringing bells are actually just your autonomic nervous system nerves being put to work. The autonomic nervous system is broken into sympathetic and parasympathic branches. The sympathetic branch in the one that made you feel the way you were feeling moments before you fell to the earth after jumping out of a plane. That ‘flight or fight’ response you were having was a release of norepinephrine in the reaction because your hypothalamus told it to in an efferent signal. The release of NE prepares the body for actions as it increases heart rate, blood pressure, respirations and attention. Essentially, your body is slowing all other less necessary processes to allow it to be fully invested I the situation at …show more content…
This is the parasympathic branch in action. This branch, referred to often as the ‘rest and restore’ behaviors because it works against the sympathetic system to counteract it’s effects. The same organs that were being told to ‘fight or flight’ moments ago are innervated also by the parasympathic system telling it to rest. Perhaps you felt your heart rate lower, breathing return to normal, and you regained an appetite. The ability to sense your heart rate slowing and internal processes returning to normal is through the use of afferent messages, otherwise known as signal from sense organs and internal processes to give feedback to the
BioPsych Extra Credit Essays First Exam (#1)
10/6/15
Extra Credit Essay about Abolitionists and Minimalists #1
Hannah,
I know how you feel about ethical position in research because I have known you for 22 years since you are my older sister. Specifically, in terms of animal testing for scientific studies, I know how strongly you are against testing and harming animals for the benefit of humans. I wanted to let you know that you are not alone, and in fact there are ways to use animals in testing without doing harm to them. In the scientific field, you would be known as an ‘abolitionist’. By favoring firm ideas that all animals have the same rights as humans and any animal use for testing is completely unethical, you prefer …show more content…
Remember how you felt in the plane when the door opened and you were on the very edge about to jump out? The feeling of your stomach dropping, a rush of alertness, shaking, and an accelerated heart/lung pattern should ring some bells for you. Well those ringing bells are actually just your autonomic nervous system nerves being put to work. The autonomic nervous system is broken into sympathetic and parasympathic branches. The sympathetic branch in the one that made you feel the way you were feeling moments before you fell to the earth after jumping out of a plane. That ‘flight or fight’ response you were having was a release of norepinephrine in the reaction because your hypothalamus told it to in an efferent signal. The release of NE prepares the body for actions as it increases heart rate, blood pressure, respirations and attention. Essentially, your body is slowing all other less necessary processes to allow it to be fully invested I the situation at …show more content…
This is the parasympathic branch in action. This branch, referred to often as the ‘rest and restore’ behaviors because it works against the sympathetic system to counteract it’s effects. The same organs that were being told to ‘fight or flight’ moments ago are innervated also by the parasympathic system telling it to rest. Perhaps you felt your heart rate lower, breathing return to normal, and you regained an appetite. The ability to sense your heart rate slowing and internal processes returning to normal is through the use of afferent messages, otherwise known as signal from sense organs and internal processes to give feedback to the