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This means that the Guinea Worm is now a very endangered species. Won't someone think of the worms?
by presidentender 12y ago
This means that the Guinea Worm is now a very endangered species. Won't someone think of the worms?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoWell, if you wish to offer some habitat.
- derefr 12y agoProbably this is a not-very-empathizable example (thus the downvotes), but the principle is sound. Humans re-engineer the Earth to obey human morality. We think the wolf killing the sheep is wrong, so we put a fence between the wolf and the sheep. Now the wolves start starving to death, so we toss sheep steaks over the fence. It's a weird equilibrium. (Though possibly solved one day, for the most part, if we get vat-grown meat right.)
- presidentender 12y agoI think probably that if we do vat-grown meat, the sheep all die without offspring, since we'd have no reason to breed them and they're not very good at surviving on their own.