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"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction." - Professor Charles R. Magel

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[druiman]

Physiologically, animals are more like us than anything else.
Psychologically, they are not.

So what he said doesn't contradict at all.

Drummond

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Yes it does. Clinical depression is a PSYCHOLOGICAL condition, for a start.
Secondly, if their bodies are enough like ours to be of use to science, they can feel like us (emotion, after all, has been shown to be a physiological response). Thirdly, if their brains are enough like ours to be of use, then most of their psychological processes would likewise be the same. Remember, psychology uses animal research constantly as basis for generalisation to humans.