I'm pretty liberal and agree with most of your answers, Vito, with the exception of animal medical testing. I love animals and I've had pets all my life, but it's my belief that people come first. That's where the extremists at PETA go off the beam. When you care more about the animal kingdom than you do about humanity, I think you're a little bit off. So while I'm dead set against snobby Upper East Side women wearing animal pelts just to be fashionable, if animal testing cures cancer or HIV someday, I'm all for it.
If there was a reason to believe that a cure for cancer or HIV (or something similar) was in sight, and the only effective way to test it was to test on animals, that would fall under the "preventing horrible suffering and /or death" exception I said I would make.
