~ ANIMAL TERRORISM -- A CLASSIC FORM OF PSYCHOPATHY ~

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~ ANIMAL TERRORISM -- A CLASSIC FORM OF PSYCHOPATHY ~

 

By Brennan Browne

 

 

 

Dr. Robert Hare's analysis of a psychopath:

 

" THE WORLD HAS ONLY ONE PROBLEM--PSYCHOPATHS. THERE

ARE TWO BASIC TYPES OF PSYCHOPATHS, SOCIAL AND ANTI-SOCIAL.

THE ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF PSYCHOPATHS IS A PERVASIVE,

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DESIRE TO FORCE THEIR DELUSIONS ON

OTHERS. PSYCHOPATHS COMPLETELY DISREGARD AND VIOLATE THE

RIGHTS OF OTHERS.

 

Over and over again we come up against religion and belief

systems that have to be defended against objective evidence

or the beliefs of others. We have to ask ourselves

" where did these belief systems come from that so

evidentially are catastrophic? " And then, we have to

think about the fact that now, in the present day, WHEN MANY

OF THESE SYSTEMS ARE BREAKING DOWN AND BEING REPLACED BY

OTHERS THAT SIMILARLY DIVERT OUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM WHAT

IS, IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO " ENFORCE " A CERTAIN

MODE OF THINKING. AND THAT IS WHAT PSYCHOPATHS DO BEST.

 

PSYCHOPATHS DOMINATE AND SET THE STANDARD FOR BEHAVIOR IN

OUR SOCIETY. We live in a world based on a psychopathic,

energy stealing food chain, because that's just the way

things are. MOST PEOPLE ARE SO DAMAGED THEY NO LONGER HAVE

THE CAPACITY TO EVEN IMAGINE A DIFFERENT SYSTEM BASED ON A

SYMBIOTIC NETWORK.

 

THEY [psychopaths] ARE DAMAGED BY THE THOUSAND EVILS THEY

HAVE DONE TO OTHERS TO SURVIVE. FOR THEM TO SEE THE SYSTEM

FOR WHAT IT IS, WOULD REQUIRE THEM TO SEE THE PART THEY HAVE

PLAYED IN PERPETUATING IT. THAT'S A LOT TO ASK OF A

FRAGILE EGO. "

 

 

 

PZ Myers says:

Think about this: you have a baby daughter who needs

precise surgeries done on the tiny, delicate muscles of her

eyes. Do you want her to be the very first practice surgery

the doctor has ever done, or would you rather, perhaps, that

the doctor had done his practice surgeries on animals

first?

 

BB:

Strabismus [crossed eyes] does in no way necessitate the

barbarity of sewing kittens eyes shut. Since it requires

nothing more than a surgical manipulation of the eye muscles

[and the afflicted person exercising those muscles], this

learning technique can easily be taught and performed on

cadavers to gain expertise. As for amblyopia [dim eyesight]

there is no way whatsoever that torturing kittens by

depriving them of their vision is warranted when millions of

human subjects suffer from this condition and are more than

willing to volunteer for clinical research studies.    

 

PZ Myers says:

Oooh, sewing kittens' eyes shut sounds so evil,

doesn't it? How could that possibly help people?

 

BB: It can't.

 

 

   Psychopathic checklist:

 

   Aggressive narcissism

 

 1. Glibness/superficial charm

 2. Grandiose sense of self-worth

 3. Pathological lying

 4. Cunning/manipulative

 5. Lack of remorse or guilt

 6. Emotionally shallow

 7. Callous/lack of empathy

 8. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions

 

 

The shoe obviously fits here...time to wear it!

 

 

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TERRORISTS OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Category:  [Propaganda]

Posted on: February 24, 2010 9:22 AM, by PZ Myers

 

Janet Stemwedel was a participant in a panel discussion on

the ethics of animal research. She got her reward: she is

now featured on the web page of a deranged terrorist for

animal rights, complete with her home address and phone

number. These thugs are people who threaten children and

carry out violence against researchers, and deserve to be

treated as terrorists, fitting the definition perfectly:

they use fear and intimidation and violence to compel people

to meet their irrational demands.

 

They are also ignorant, and don't even want to

understand the purpose of basic research. This particular

ranting loon made a revealing admission in the complaints

about the researchers:

 

On the left below, are the three individuals [stemwedel,

Blakemore, Ringach] who will be speaking in favor of

imprisoning, mutilating and then killing animals under the

" guise " of science. NONE OF THEM ARE MEDICAL

DOCTORS; repeat, NONE of the three vivisectionists have EVER

treated a single patient in their lives and their torture of

animals has NEVER helped a human patient.

 

(Punctuating with frequent use of ALL CAPS is one of the

characteristics of this person's mode of communication,

I'm afraid.)

 

There is so much wrong with that comment. There is a false

equation of scientific and medical research; the only kind

of research regarded as 'scientific' is therapeutic,

clinical research that directly makes a human being

healthier. It's fallacious and short-sighted thinking.

We need to understand how cells and tissues function in

normal, healthy organisms, and for that we need to work on

animal models — there are obvious ethical problems with

proposing to tinker with the nervous systems of healthy

human babies, for instance. The scientists who do

fundamental work on how nervous systems work tend not to be

M.D.s because they are not trying to do clinical work; the

scientists who directly study human disease tend to be M.D.s

because they must be to be qualified to work on people. They

are both necessary, the first to puzzle out basic mechanisms

of biology, the second to apply that knowledge to human

beings. Excluding the first from the domain of science

because they don't have the specialized, narrow training

needed to work on one species is nonsensical.

 

One of the panelists, Colin Blakemore, is a perfect example

of the importance of basic research.

 

Colin Blakmore's claim to fame is experimenting on

kittens for YEARS in England. Blakemore is outspoken in his

support of the use of animal testing in medical research. He

came to the attention of the animal rights movement while at

Oxford University in the 1980s, when he carried out research

into amblyopia and strabismus, conducting experiments that

involved sewing kittens' eyelids shut from birth in

order to study the development of their visual cortex.

 

Oooh, sewing kittens' eyes shut sounds so evil,

doesn't it? How could that possibly help people?

 

Well, it doesn't if you're an idiot who begins with

the premise that the only true science in this field would

require that Blakemore be an M.D. who sews babies' eyes

shut. But let's assume you are a rational human being.

 

My daughter was born with mild strabismus. Our doctor was

rightly concerned, and took us aside to explain what happens

to the brain in these case, citing the research done on cats

(which I was already familiar with, since I was trained as a

developmental neurobiologist). The brain is a plastic organ,

and even for several years after birth, it is being wired

and remodeled — the optic nerves are making connections

with specialized targets in the brain. The young brain

actually tests for disparities in the signals from the two

eyes and makes adjustments to minimize noise in the signal

— too much variance, and it automatically starts shutting

down confusing inputs. We knew from the work on cats that,

while my daughter had two perfectly functional eyes, her

brain was going to respond by rewiring to ignore one of

them.

 

She spent her first several years with therapy designed

from the perspective of our understanding of how the plastic

brain works — understanding directly derived from the work

of people like Blakemore. She also had a series of surgeries

to adjust and strengthen the muscles of her eyes.

 

Think about this: you have a baby daughter who needs

precise surgeries done on the tiny, delicate muscles of her

eyes. Do you want her to be the very first practice surgery

the doctor has ever done, or would you rather, perhaps, that

the doctor had done his practice surgeries on animals first?

Early in my career, I worked as an animal care assistant in

a department of surgery, and that's what most of the

animals were used for: teaching medical students the basics

of their craft, running students through simple procedures

that made them learn how to handle tissues, how to cope with

bleeding, how to repair damage, all stuff that you cannot do

except on living organisms.

 

The real monsters are the terrorists at the " Negotiation is over! " website.

Even from the title you can tell that they are not open to reason.