Woolly Mammoths and the ethics of cloning

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Groucho

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Anyone watch that Channel 4 thing tonight about cloning mammoths?

If you did, perhaps you're considering, Jurassic Park style, whether we should clone extinct animals.

I'm of the opinion that, if we caused the species to be exctinct, then we ought to bring it back if we're able. As we killed and ate mammoths, we should rectify the problem.

By that reasoning, we shouldn't bring back dinosaurs. What's folks' thoughts?
 

Elong said:
"So preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should".

I reckon everything happens for a reason, if it's happened, it's nature. We're a virus on this earth like.
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That's fair enough and I get that, but I think that if something's exctint because of us, then we should bring that back if we're able.
 
Groucho said:
That's fair enough and I get that, but I think that if something's exctint because of us, then we should bring that back if we're able.
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The world has changed since we've made them extinct though, they'd have thousands of years gap with no way of adapting, it'd be miserable. They wanted to do the same with moas here in NZ, but 80% of the natural bush has been eradicated, there'd be nowhere for them to live in unison with modern human life.

So then you get the commercial aspect, the zoos, the entertainment etc. Don't like that one little bit.
 

Elong said:
The world has changed since we've made them extinct though, they'd have thousands of years gap with no way of adapting, it'd be miserable. They wanted to do the same with moas here in NZ, but 80% of the natural bush has been eradicated, there'd be nowhere for them to live in unison with modern human life.

So then you get the commercial aspect, the zoos, the entertainment etc. Don't like that one little bit.
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Good point on adaptation there.
 
To go a step further using the moa example over here in NZ, they were made extinct by the native maori in about 150 years from arriving on the shores. Sad.

However, to bring them back because of that would be a nightmare. In the 1600s when they disappeared, there were no rats, possums, cats, dogs etc in New Zealand, these were brought by the white man. Moas eggs would be like taking candy from a baby, it's the reason why kiwis are now nearly extinct. The world moves on, we create these problems, but they're irreversible imo.
 


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