“Besides, you talk about animals advancing science. Even if there wasn’t that great French physiologist or chemist or something who looked at the result of experiments on animals and said hélàs, nous avons les mains vides . He declared that there’s nothing to be learned about human bodies from animals and even if there were the thing is that the animals have no choice. We’ve no right to force them to suffer.”
“An animal’s constituted differently to a man. You can’t compare them in the matter of sensitiveness to pain.”
“I knew you’d say that. If people really want to advance science by experiments on bodies they should offer their own bodies.”
“Someone’s been working on your mind if you believe animals suffer more than men.”
“I’d rather see a woman suffer than a man and a man rather than a child and a child rather than an animal. Animals are bewildered and don’t understand. They have nothing to help them. They don’t understand their sufferings.”
“You rate men lower than women in power to endure pain.”
“They get more practice.”
“You’re right there.”
“They’re less sensitive.”
“That’s debateable, Wayneflete.”
“Women appear to be callous over the sufferings of other women and to make a fuss over men. It’s because sick men are more helpless and pitiful. Women appear to be. But the sun appears to go round the earth.”