Enforce it for whom? I, sir, wipe my ass with Kant's categorical imperative. Life is suffering because everything is completely impermanent and passes away, but life itself is also the will to power. That is, life is that which is self overcoming: it only exists because it adapts and gains more power. To truly embrace life you have to accept its impermanence and also accept that renouncing power is equivalent to renouncing life. You seem to be the kind of person who hates all of the world wonders because they involved slave labor. Most great acts necessarily involve suffering, but that doesn't mean that we should be oversensitive weaklings and achieve nothing great.scw55 said:I assume with you hypocritical philosophy on life, it's fine if your family gets brutally maimed because 'life is suffering'. I know life is shit and misreble. Doesn't mean we have to enforce it.ReiverCorrupter said:Wah, wah, wah. Those poor laboratory animals. Life is suffering, get over it. You can't make a velociraptor without hatching a few deformed eggs. A little cruelty is hardly an excuse to not do amazing things. If you don't like it then go become a Jain. They at least have the testicular fortitude to take the philosophy to its logical extreme.scw55 said:Mmm, as excited as I am at the idea of prehistoric species coming alive, there's quite a few issues. The animals could never live in the wild as they would distrupt the 'balanced' ecosystem (as balanced as it can be with humans constantly mucking with it).
The only reason I can see for this research is the sake of being able to do it. That's...
Possibley the new animals could be used to research diseases and random stuff, but that means you're breeding animals to experiment on. Depending on the experiments it has the potential to be ethically wrong.
I would prefer if they used this method to ressurect animals that we humans have caused to go extinct due to our own selfish needs. However... I'm not sure how they would do that...
Devolve a close reletive of say the Dodo till the animal they produce is a common ancestor, and prey that animal may in the rare event evolve down the route of the Dodo. Still the animal would never be able to live in a real ecosystem. It would forever be in captivity.
Will be interesting to unravel mysteries of evolution. But I don't want this to happen at the expense of a life of an innocent laboritory manipulated animal.
Now, I'm not for torturing animals needlessly, but for the sake of amazing scientific experiments it's perfectly fine, even if those experiments don't have an immediate benefit outside the broadening of our knowledge. Seriously, look up Jainism. It seems right up your alley.