Dissection Is Cruel And Necessary

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I agree dissection is cruel, unnatural, and unnecessary because they are killing animals that shouldn’t be killed because the animals should just be able to live a long and simple life without being euthanized just to be cut open and see what is inside just to see what's different from us to from what's different from them there is really no point in harming these animals.
I disagree dissection is unnatural because who would want to see the insides of a dead animal and see what nasty diseases they have and see if it is contagious. I personally thought this lab was disgusting because we had to rip out the rats guts and intestines which everybody doesn’t want to do but might seem fun to slice something open for science but might not be appealing

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