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I'd very much like to have @DaveM take on this.
The sugarcane farmers will just steal the dodos and mass produce them like turkeys. if they release them on that island. the pros the worlds largest pigeon will be back.I want a pro and con analysis covering from the ethical to the existential.
Well, that's great! I think we're missing some members of the caucus race (or were they flamingoes?).I'd very much like to have @DaveM take on this.
"All living organisms are a product of their environment." So the big ponderable is and has always been what environmental traits and immunities get and don't get passed on?Extinct animals are not going to be brought back as they once were. If they manage to create something from the extinct DNA it will be some type of hybrid creature that has a mix of various aspects.
You might get tunnel carpal, grinding that organ all day.Ready ethicists?
I want a pet Homo habilis.
aaaand....DEBATE!
Ewe Acksed fore itt. During my formative years, an esteemed personage whom it was established and given was my biological mother, joined in the chorus band wagon of denigrating and entirely discounting Louis Leakey's discovery of H habilis, relegating him to the fraud squad fringe contingent of improper scientific methodology and unwarranted conclusion jumping. Unbeknownst to me at that time, this academicist mother held a secondary degree in Victorian Prude - apparently cum laud, along with her other scholastic degrees and achievements.Ready ethicists?
Reading the article there was one small word that interested me " WHY ".Ewe Acksed fore itt. During my formative years, an esteemed personage whom it was established and given was my biological mother, joined in the chorus band wagon of denigrating and entirely discounting Louis Leakey's discovery of H habilis, relegating him to the fraud squad fringe contingent of improper scientific methodology and unwarranted conclusion jumping. Unbeknownst to me at that time, this academicist mother held a secondary degree in Victorian Prude - apparently cum laud, along with her other scholastic degrees and achievements.
It wasn't until college and a glance in the direction of paleoarcheology that I discovered Mr. Leakey's findings were in fact true and correct. My entire world pertaining to H habilis required rewriting due entirely to the utterly ridiculous slant my pregenitor imposed upon my thinking stemming from Mr. Leakey's improper romantic straying from the staid and proper conduct fold.
Lesson learned. Try to keep an open mind to additional data.
Since we don't know if they're our ancestors and can only guess their intelligence by brain case size, owning one could range from having a pet chimpanzee to slavery. Then there's the possibility you would need to duplicate certain aspects of its natural habitat for it to thrive, such as a crocodile biting off part of the H. habilis' foot (don't laugh, there's archeological evidence to support this). This could prove difficult in the US, for while alligators are widely available they do differ from crocodiles (not as available) and therefore might not be enough to keep your H. habilis happy while lurking in its water source. Getting back to the question of intelligence, H. habilis was smart enough to make stone tools; so if it doesn't have to hunt or forage for food what is it going to do all day? Have you ever watched daytime TV? It would be unquestionably cruel and inhumane to subject any type of creature to that!Ready ethicists?
I want a pet Homo habilis.
aaaand....DEBATE!
Isn't that why we work for a living?...............Have you ever watched daytime TV? It would be unquestionably cruel and inhumane to subject any type of creature to that!................