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khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

rakovsky maybe posted:

I'm not sure how serious you are, but the philosophical case has been made that even though we can't do it now, eventually humans will have the genetic/biological knowledge to basically convert the entire ecosystem to into an herbivorous mode of existence. And that it would be morally wrong not to do so.

eSports Chaebol posted:

It's certainly not in our power to take that sort of stewardship over wild animals, but if in the future if it is, we should. If we could deploy nanobots or whatever to release selective analgesics to ease animal suffering without hindering necessary survival instincts based on pain, why not?

I think we're starting to fly off in a crazy sci-fi direction, the first one is really some absurd nonsense. How would you go about converting the whole planet to a 'Herbivorous mode of existence'? What would you do with all the predators? Why are we imposing morality upon nature in the first place?

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