You&#x27;ve grossly mischaracterized my argument. I&#x27;m not sure you understood my argument. Normally I&#x27;d not reply or reply rather dryly, but given that you&#x27;ve taken to implying that I&#x27;m &quot;sticking my head into the ground&quot; and avoiding the &quot;more important and harder to defend&quot; question, decision, and so I&#x27;ll take a moment here to answer your points individually.<p>I argued that they are <i>not</i> mutually exclusive and therefore <i>must</i> be balanced, which requires a decision, which is very much <i>not</i> sticking one&#x27;s head in the ground. It is explicitly taking responsibility for any actions or decisions made from having weighed the, at times conflicting, issues &#x2F; interests involved.<p>&quot;Ethics as generally portrayed costs lives and increases misery in part by preventing useful studies from being done, but also though overhead from review boards.&quot;<p>This is an overly general statement (I&#x27;m not sure by what evidence you feel comfortable or on what basis you claim the authority to make such a claim on how ethics is generally portrayed) and not sure how you&#x27;ve calculate the overhead costs versus the overhead benefits (in situations where review boards prevent misery).<p>As to your reply, it makes a poor attempt at a &quot;straw man&quot; strategy, but even then lacks any evidence to support your counter-argument. You then proceed to the strategy of an &quot;ad hominem argument&quot;, nakedly, and come across petty doing so, given the weight of the issue and the lack of seriousness with which you&#x27;ve treated the discussion up to that point. Finally, you&#x27;ve basically clumsily reworded a portion of the argument I put forth, betraying the fact that you either didn&#x27;t understand my argument or are purposely trying to misconstrue my argument, while not engaging with the rest of what I put forth.<p>The chimpanzees are living creatures. Humans are living creature. This is an important and sober issue for many, many people. Please don&#x27;t interject petty personal attacks into the conversation.