Animal testing
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Animal testing is commonly used to test products such as drugs. The argument is that testing on animals is very similar to testing on humans. I disagree and believe that animal testing does not work as much as people believe it does.
So, cons main argument, supported by sources, argued that 80% of drugs that work on animals don’t work on humans. While I don’t feel that this was fully explored by either side, pro didn’t give me any reason to discount cons position here. Pro needed to either disprove this position - or justify why 20% of drugs working justify the usage of animal testing. While pro came in the right ballpark by saying that animal testing doesn’t guarantee the drug will work - pro fell short of overturning this point
In the absence of this, I don’t feel pro offered enough of a justification in support of animal testing otherwise - as the arguments were predicated on arguing that animal testing is useful (which is directly opposed to cons sources argument)
I felt that cons arguments about death row inmates were largely irrelevant as they did not affirm or negate the resolution, so these held no weight.
I think if your a murderer, you should die by a formula I call PL^3. If you killed 1 person by shooting, then getting experimented on while conscious is too harsh. If you killed 10+ people or enough people to the point that it would be almost impossible to accurately prescribe pain, then death by experimentation sounds like a good idea. If you murdered less people, then PL^3 sounds like a good formula.
P is the amount of pain the victims died with.
L is the number of lives the murderer took.
If you murder 1 person by a shooting, such a murderer deserves to be shot.
If you murder 2 people by a stabbing, such a murderer deserves to be killed by a method 8x as painful as getting stabbed.
I would want these executions to be public in stadiums so ticket sales can pay for the execution and can provide the government with more money.
This is my idea. Let me know what you think of it.