DON'T BRING EXTINCT CREATURES BACK TO LIFE - IQ2 debate (1 Viewer)

[tonydead]

I don't really like messing with nature.  I like to let things go how they go.  Yes, even if that means humans(who are a part of nature) are directly responsible for the demise of a species.   I'd rather leave nature alone--at least today.  Maybe someday when we are more educated on the pros and cons of manipulating nature could we take on these kinds of things.

We do things every day that don't necessarily agree with nature and certainly wouldn't fall into the "leave nature alone" category.

 

[adonis]

Surely we all agree we should bring unicorns back from extinction, right?

 

[Sheriff Bart]

Surely we all agree we should bring unicorns back from extinction, right?

All right, let me ask you this. Tell me if this is creative: when I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this is before I had even... heard of one or seen one. I just drew a picture of a horse that could fly over rainbows and had a huge spike in its head. I was five. Five years old! Couldn't even talk yet!

 

[The Future Champs]

I'd bring back mammoths, no hesitation.  What's the worst case scenario?  A couple of trampled ecotourists?

 

[adonis]

All right, let me ask you this. Tell me if this is creative: when I was five, I imagined that there was such a thing as a unicorn. And this is before I had even... heard of one or seen one. I just drew a picture of a horse that could fly over rainbows and had a huge spike in its head. I was five. Five years old! Couldn't even talk yet!

It's never a bad time to quote the office.

 

[dkp993]

Puppy monkey baby?

The single worst commercial in the history of commercials......

 

[timschochet]

They should bring them back and then put them in a park for tourists to see. 

I don't see what could go wrong with that.

Whenever I watch those films I always wondered why they couldn’t just bring back the peaceful herbivore ones- it would still bring in the crowds. Problem solved, right? 

 

[tonydead]

There has been a project to revive the extinct Passenger Pigeon from DNA and there hasn't been much of an outcry against that.

https://reviverestore.org/about-the-passenger-pigeon/

Um.

 

[lod001]

heck yeah, bring back all the dinosaurs.

 

[adonis]

heck yeah, bring back all the dinosaurs.

We could make it into a reality tv show where we put all of them on an island, with TV cameras, and call it Jurassic Survivor.  

10 vicious carnivores, brought back from extinction, dropped on an island with video cameras and GPS trackers.  Only one survives, the rest return to extinction.  

 

[wikkidpissah]

Bring em on! I wanna saddle me up a raptor like the Israelites used to do.

 

[PhantomJB]

There should be no issues bringing back extinct critters though we should be focused on saving our currently living ones.

Agreed.

IMO we should also prioritize restoring natural habitat where it makes biological sense (e.g. reintroducing wolves to Colorado, Isle Royale).

 

[whoknew]

Whenever I watch those films I always wondered why they couldn’t just bring back the peaceful herbivore ones- it would still bring in the crowds. Problem solved, right? 

Come on. Everyone wants to see the T-Rex. He's the Jordan of the dinosaurs. 

You can't have Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

 

[-fish-]

Just one dinosaur?  A little one?

 

[The Future Champs]

We could make it into a reality tv show where we put all of them on an island, with TV cameras, and call it Jurassic Survivor.  

10 vicious carnivores, brought back from extinction, dropped on an island with video cameras and GPS trackers.  Only one survives, the rest return to extinction.  

GoPros, ftw.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Ohhh...Mr smart guy.  What if in order to cure a human life we had to torture this animal in order to get it to release a fluid that could cure autism? huh huh huh?  What then huh?

JFC....   

Cure for autism?  What the holy hell?

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

heck yeah, bring back all the dinosaurs.

They’re already here. Just look for the red hats with MAGA on th front.

 

[timschochet]

Who was that one poster who thought that human beings played with dinosaurs because the Earth was only 6,000 years old? 

 

[-fish-]

Who was that one poster who thought that human beings played with dinosaurs because the Earth was only 6,000 years old? 

Larryboy.   He also believed that dragons are real.

 

[supermike80]

We do things every day that don't necessarily agree with nature and certainly wouldn't fall into the "leave nature alone" category.

I know

 

[The Man With No Name]

Bees

World’s largest bee, once presumed extinct, filmed alive in the wild

 

[Hawkeye21]

World’s largest bee, once presumed extinct, filmed alive in the wild

Now that's a big bee.  That's pretty awesome.