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Use "prisoner" instead of "human" and it's more palatable.
One of the country's top brain surgeons has launched an uncompromising attack on the government's decision to set up a centre to promote alternatives to animal experiments.
"There is no substitute for carrying out experiments on animals and it is dishonest to suggest otherwise," Professor Tipu Aziz told The Observer. "If we want to rid ourselves of the scourge of brain disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, we have to face the fact that we need to carry out animal experiments."
Professor Aziz is living proof that there are high-function victims of autism leading very productive lives, with successful careers and many of the attributes of normal human emotions. Sadly, the one human attribute that's most essential to distinguish us from the insects, that emotion so close to love, compassion, that gives us the ability to empathize, is completely missing in these unfortunate victims.
Perhaps someday if we kill enough laboratory animals slowly enough, or if we finally get the societal permission necessary to use the waste populations of prisons and jails, perhaps then we can find a cure for this insidious and invisible affliction, that seems to strike so many of our best scientific minds, and leave them incapable of anything more than the most rudimentary human feeling.
