" most people now realize that animals experience pain and other feelings (273). In the first example, she says that "thanks to a growing number of studies into the nature and mechanisms of animals' perceptions and intelligence. Both focus on the same idea Goodall gives no grounds, warrant, or backing for her support to her thesis.
There are two main examples in her essay that illustrate this point. Because she chooses such highly emotional words, the focus of the reader switches from looking for rational arguments to support Goodall's thesis to getting wrapped up in the emotions of the issue.Ī second way in which emotion dominates Goodall's essay is that her arguments are very weak. This question, with its dramatic connotations, clearly illustrates how Goodall, through her choice of words, seeks to create a negative emotional attitude toward using animals in research.
The use of such words as "inmates" and "concentration camps" gives a person the idea that animals are kept like harmfully-treated prisoners, just as the Jews were during the Holocaust. For example, Goodall asks this question: "How can we, the citizens of civilized, western countries, tolerate laboratories which-from the point of view of animal inmates-are not unlike concentration camps?" (273). She uses descriptive words in order to show her readers exactly how cruel she thinks it is to use animals for research. The first way in which Goodall reveals her emotions is through her choice of language. This dominance is shown in three main ways: her use of emotionally-charged language, her use of weak arguments, and her fallacious reasoning. In her essay, "Some Thoughts on the Exploitation of Non-Human Animals," Jane Goodall uses both the rational appeal and the emotional appeal however, the emotion used is so strong that it overwhelms the reason.
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