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The Bioethics of Jurassic Park

123savethewhales
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Posted 11/06/09 - 12:20 AM:	#21
At some level I kind of enjoy the label "playing God". I say let us play God, and in doing so, destroy the need for an imaginary one. That being said, there are more than enough cases where scientist thought it was a good idea to introduce an alien species into a new area and end up getting totally out of control. From plant lives to snails to africanized bees, it's probably not an good idea to clone an extincted animal back to life for the sake of nothing more than curiosity.
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Posted 11/08/09 - 09:07 PM:	#22
Hi, The ethics come in to the operation after you clone your beast. What are you going to do with him? Stick him in a zoo for people to stare at? Is it ethical to bring a new life form, beast or human, into the world just to sit in a cage? Especially if he can suffer. Or alternatively are you going to release him? Even forgetting the simple eating power of a T Rex loose in a city, is it in any way wise to release a new species into an existing environment? Just consider the lovely possums introduced because they were cute and furry and good hunting, farming creatures, now raging all but out of control through New Zealand's forests, eating them. I suppose we could release a few T rex's loose in our pristine forests to control the possums, but then what are we going to release to control the T rex's? Cheers.

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Posted 11/09/09 - 05:00 AM:	#23
This is not an ethics question. Man has always been God, from his creation on. It is time the Church stops accusing science. If there is an asteroid threatening earth, who do you think will save it, science or religion? Read Dawkins: there is no place for religion in this century, it is opium for the uneducated and ignorant ones. Having said that, as previously said in the thread, the only question would be, can these animals be of some kind of danger to us or they will be like any other animal? We can keep them locked in the zoo and no problem. If that is the case then please make as many T-Rexes as possible, nothing bad here, nothing non-ethical. Kind regards. Edited by Incision on 11/09/09 - 08:52 AM. Reason: capitalization, punctuation

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Posted 11/09/09 - 05:04 AM:	#24
MiyamotoMusashi wrote: This is not an ethics question. Umm...yea. I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there, Peter. I think it most aptly pertains to bioethics, as framed by Crichton's novel. Umm...yea. Mmkay?
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Posted 11/09/09 - 05:22 AM:	#25
Bioethics or ethics -- it's all the same. Only the human knows of ethics, and all "ethics" define what is desirable for humans and what not we call it non-ethical. So if dinosaurs don't grow 20,000 feet so that we can't kill them even with nukes, then make them. Why not? Edited by Incision on 11/09/09 - 08:50 AM. Reason: illiteracy

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