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/^t/Some opponents of militant animal protection groups say that such illegal acts as the destroying of vivisection laboratories by activists is just simple vandalism. There is also a fear that the damaging of these laboratories is putting into danger the lives of the people who work in such places. One such example of these forceful activities is the burning down of a vivisection laboratory by animal rightists in Milton Keynes in 1973. As one knows aggressive behaviour by rightists has increased public knowledge about the protection of animals. Normally, any laboratory that has been destroyed by animal liberators was owned by large corporations which can easily afford to rebuild and fix these buildings. Still, in the process of rebuilding the laboratories the animal rightists may have saved the lives of thousands of creatures. For instance, if one damages a lab, the owners of the laboratory have to increase their security and that is less money to spend on animal experiments. That is only a short-term aim. The longer-term aim would be to escalate such events to a stage where all these industries are under threat and cannot operate.