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The ethics of cloning extinct animals

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The ethics of cloning extinct animals
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The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 2:35 pm
Do you guys think we should? Or do you think we should just let things that r dead and gone stay that way?
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 2:40 pm
What's unethical about it? I say we clone the neanderthal too.
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 2:47 pm (This post was last modified: April 28, 2014 at 2:50 pm by BrokenQuill92.)
I don't think it is but a lot people seem to think we'll pull a Frakenstine or Jurassic Park if we're not careful. I was wondering about the thoughts of other non - believers on the topic!
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Nothing unethical about it at all.

Nothing unethical about resurrecting an extinct animal if either the process or the result brings humanity net benefits.

Nothing unethical about purposedly causing the extinction of an animal if either the process or the result brings humanity net benefits.
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 2:54 pm
I want to bring back extinct animals to see how they taste.
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 2:57 pm
(April 28, 2014 at 2:54 pm)KUSA Wrote: I want to bring back extinct animals to see how they taste.

I'd imagine rather beefy. It seems as if some of the oldest living animals have a beef like texture to their meat. (Shark and alligator r what I've tried)
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 4:06 pm
(April 28, 2014 at 2:47 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I don't think it is but a lot people seem to think we'll pull a Frakenstine or Jurassic Park if we're not careful.
Which would be AWESOME.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 4:09 pm
(April 28, 2014 at 4:06 pm)Tonus Wrote:
(April 28, 2014 at 2:47 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I don't think it is but a lot people seem to think we'll pull a Frakenstine or Jurassic Park if we're not careful.
Which would be AWESOME.

You are a total guy!
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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 4:09 pm
I don't think of it as unethical. I just think we should be careful how we go about it.

I also think our first efforts should be to preserve the species we have or have recently become instict due to the actions or inaction, of humans.

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RE: The ethics of cloning extinct animals
April 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm
(April 28, 2014 at 4:06 pm)Tonus Wrote:
(April 28, 2014 at 2:47 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I don't think it is but a lot people seem to think we'll pull a Frakenstine or Jurassic Park if we're not careful.
Which would be AWESOME.

I dunno, dude, the last time a bunch of raptors got loose in my office, it was anything but awesome for the guy in the cube next to me.


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