Summary Of Opening Skinner's Box By Lauren Slater
Thesis- Lauren Slater contradicts herself/can’t have it both ways. On the one hand, she argues that she is against Harlow’s experiments on the monkey. On the other hand, she agrees with her husband when he brings up the point of if experimenting on monkeys is worth saving their daughter’s life.
Paragraph one- In her book, Opening Skinner’s Box, Lauren Slater maintains that “…there’s that one percent of me that’s not from the forests, and this fragment of self can see that to hurt one is somehow, somewhere, to hurt all.” (153-154) In making this comment, Slater urges us to realize that hurting these animals is like hurting ourselves or our loved ones. We are after all as she explains earlier, more monkey than human. By cruelly experimenting
Paragraph one- In her book, Opening Skinner’s Box, Lauren Slater maintains that “…there’s that one percent of me that’s not from the forests, and this fragment of self can see that to hurt one is somehow, somewhere, to hurt all.” (153-154) In making this comment, Slater urges us to realize that hurting these animals is like hurting ourselves or our loved ones. We are after all as she explains earlier, more monkey than human. By cruelly experimenting