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Agreed. This has serious implications and I wonder if there are any other potential systems to be tapped. Dolphins cleaning up the oceans?

• jyothi 18y ago
  Why are we humans always obsessed with figuring out how another living or non-living being can be leveraged for our benefit only. Why can't we just give them their space and live in 'mutual harmony' without expecting a favor. It is remarkable to provide crows with a way to get food. But why do we have to train them to clean garbage? Can we know if they would really want to do it? Would that define their life, their purpose of existence? Are we just aiming at a crooked adoption of "survival of the fittest (read fit == helpful for human existence)"? Imagine what would have happened if animals were as evil as humans.
  • tomjen 18y ago
    The animals are free to find other sources of food, if they so desire. This is exploitation of the animals only to the extend that you don't believe in free will.
    • rw 18y ago
      Free will is a difficult position to defend nowadays. If free will is physical, you have to explain away determinism and causality. If free will is supernatural, we have to go meta with the discussion and figure out why you believe in the nonphysical.