If I told you, you wouldn't believe me.

[naughtibiscotti]

Every day is a haze. Where did passion go? Did I leave it on the bedroom floor? Did it get lost in the laundry, maybe thrown out by accident with my obsolete poetry books and journals

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[aphroditeseyes]

Reading your writing was a breath of fresh air.

And I love hearing about how your life is.

[plathsrevenge]

For now they are my friends. In a few months I'll start my experiments. No death for them, just pain, all in the name of science, eh?

that's fucked up. and really unlike you.

[plathsrevenge]

Vivisection: A Moderate Proposal by Derrick Jensen

[plathsrevenge]

continued...

I suspect, however, that we still won’t have enough: our culture’s appetite for subjects on which to inflict "moderate suffering" seems insatiable. We need to forcefeed agrochemicals and drano to dogs through tubes directly into their stomachs, and we need to transplant the hearts and kidneys of pigs into the necks of baboons. We immobilize monkeys, lizards, cats, dogs, take off the tops of their heads. We break the necks of baboons. We addict macaques to cocaine, electroshock them if they will not use. We create superviruses that kill everyone they contact. We cut out portions of the brains of marmosets, and leave them as stupid as the experimenters themselves. We cut off the heads of live animals using scissors, then study their brains. We put live animals in freezers and let them try to claw their way out. We teach chimps American Sign Language, then put them in cages the size of cupboards: when they sign they want out, we ignore them, inject them with pesticides. We separate monkeys from their mothers, give them HIV

Forgive me?

[naughtibiscotti]

I admit, scientist do a lot of fucked up stuff. But I won't, by any means, be cutting off the tops of heads or implanting testicals into faces or whatnot. If extreme suffering is evident, the mice will be euthanized immediately. That shouldn't be necessary, though, since what I'll be doing (the painful part anyway) has been done before and is pretty simple (in theory).
It's a fucked up world, sure. There's pain and suffering all over the place. But I'm not running a factory organ farm, and I'm treating my mice humanely. I'm still the same person, even if I've become rather more stoic about my field of study. You think you can still be friends with a scientist?

[psychoticmuse]

!

Her journal lives!

[aphroditeseyes]

Right!?