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>Not a single person in my social network is against the idea of trying to clone a mammoth or trying to clone an extinct cat or dinosaur. What are you going to
by macspoofing 11y ago
>Not a single person in my social network is against the idea of trying to clone a mammoth or trying to clone an extinct cat or dinosaur.
What are you going to do with them? Neither a T-Rex nor a Mammoth would do well in the wild and even if you put the issues of environmental difference between the distant past and today, you may be disrupting existing large fauna, which is already on the brink of extinction due to human activity. If that's not the case, you'll be left with the ethics of zoos and animal rights.
- 27182818284 11y ago>If that's not the case, you'll be left with the ethics of zoos and animal rights. This is kind of to my point. Nobody I know has raised objects like that, and animal rights is largely PR based anyway. (E.g., politicians eating baby elephant but social media upset about Cecil.) Nobody I've talked to has said something like, "We shouldn't do it for ethical reasons and they are..." which I find interesting and why I broached the topic.
- eruditely 11y agoKeep them in large cages and let us look at them.