True Left

We could easily view the high social status conferred onto Western science as a modern revival of a subconscious pagan instinct. Animal-testing Western scientists are as respected by mainstream Western society as animal-sacrificing druids were respected in mainstream pagan society:

https://www.worldhistory.biz/ancient-history/53465-animal-sacrifice.html

The only difference is that, unlike the druids, the Western scientists themselves are Aristotelians:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/msg5052/#msg5052

The history of animal testing goes back to the writings of the Ancient Greeks in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, with Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus (304–258 BCE) one of the first documented to perform experiments on animals.[1]

We speculated about Aristotle's Turanian blood here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/debate-with-the-liberals/msg15024/#msg15024