Terrorism is wrong. That's generally accepted. However, it seems to happen when large groups of people are ignored or 'deflected' by an unequal application of THE LAW. It tends to result from groups having their concerns ignored, and then the groups decide that the law does not equally work on their behalf and so why stay inside the law?

The whole area of research using animals needs serious review. I agree with Cluin who posted above and said that when the research is done to produce shampoos and soaps, that's maybe not at all cool (my words, not his). When it's done to further knowledge about things deadly to humans, maybe there is reason to use the animals.

When I said that people are animals, too, it was not to be flip. We know that children who are cruel to animals carry that habit into their later lives, and they then transfer that cruelty to members of their own species. It becomes a matter of degree as opposed to a matter of right/wrong. If the act of torture becomes something to which we inure ourselves (and holding open the eyes of rabbits while shampoos are tested on their eyes is an act of torture regardless its other motives), then doing so to humans is an easy next step.

I think it dehumanizes US as people to do that type of thing to any creature. It is not a good enough argument to me that we are the top of the food chain and therefore we can do it because we want to. We are also at the top of the intellectual 'food chain', and that means, IMO, we should be above it, not part of it. We wouldn't like it done to us; therefore, we shouldn't do it to others.