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Very cool, but is it ethical?
by tonijn 1y ago
Very cool, but is it ethical?
- api 1y agoWe cause lots of things to go extinct. Doesn't seem any worse.
- wombatpm 1y agoMad Science means never having to ask “What’s the worst that can happen?”
- krxci 1y agoThis is a deeply philosophical question. But it's highly dependent on the circumstances of a particular animal's extinction. Is it ethical to resurrect the Wolly Mammoth into our current climate when it's significantly warmer than the climate of the Ice Age? Likely not. Was a species hunted to extinction? Maybe restoring that population would ease our collective conscience to some minuet degree. So maybe bringing back some of these species is being done so as an apologetic gesture? Perhaps out of hubris? To be fair, we're notoriously cruel to the animals that we farm for mass food production and less directly to wild animals (when human activity destroys their habitat). Images of such farm operations might remind you of conditions imposed on alleged dissedents by dictatorial regimes. You know, those same conditions that are condemned as atrocious when imposed on humans by humans. And this kind of treatment is still absolutely prevalent today on humans and other animals.
- bell-cot 1y agoEthically, how is it different from (say) Kentucky Kennels LLC trying to breed some Great Danes which drool less?
- AIPedant 1y ago[dead]
- evanb 1y agoHmmm, are you suggesting that the scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think whether or not they should? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0
- burnished 1y agoWould it be ethical to let all this lightning striking the castle's copper spire go to waste?
- leesec 1y agoPlease provide the unethical case
- thomassmith65 1y agoIs it ethical to make exaggerated claims in order to raise money? No. The article is one red flag after another.