antivivisectionism

the brain that changes itself is a good read, except it treads on my antivivisectionist ethics.

while the portrayal of the two peta activists as loners and lovers may have some merit, doidge gives no balance to it.

he calmly writes of sewing up monkeys' fingers and kittens' eyelids, then 'sacrificing' them and doing autopsies to see what changes have been wrought in the brain.

i'm perplexed what to do with the knowledge gained in this reading.

in the larger scale, i'm perplexed what to do with compromised knowledge in general. is all human knowledge compromised?

maybe i should fergetaboutit.
maybe i should keep it close and personal.
maybe i should be firm and stand for what i believe in.
maybe i should join the 21st century and disavow peta.
as i said, i'll sleep on it.