readoncontradiction [none/use name]

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  • Cloning technology is cool but pet ownership is controversial. All the animals (and even plants) that humans domesticated or tamed, it has mostly been a bad deal for them. The few species that have benefited from us are either carnivorous, invasive, or ecologically damaging in some way. There is no consensus among animal rights activists, animal liberationists, and vegans as what we should do with pets and other domesticated animals. Some popular theories include simply ending their breeding so they will die off naturally, culling them all because from a utilitarian perspective that would result in less harm overall since keeping every single domesticated animal alive without a profit to be gained would be incredibly hard and damaging to the environment, there’s some people that think we should try to integrate the animals we already domesticated into society because we owe that to them for messing with their evolution (think street cats that cities pay to keep healthy).

    Now on the issue of cloning, animal experimentation is highly unethical due to the lack of consent, it was necessary in the past in the same way it was necessary for ancient humans to eat meat as hunter gatherers. But cloning is necessary for bringing back extinct animals, ending diseases, and moving beyond the binary the spectrum. Brining back a dog because you really like that dog is narcissistic, it’s not even the same dog, even if we could put the memories back in then you run into the teleporter problem because it’s not a direct continuation of that individual, just a copy. And all of this leads to another question, do people or animals even deserve to be immortal. The answer is no, everyone and everything should die. Even if we could insure consciousness doesn’t get interrupted during cloning, or we could make bodies that are invulnerable. Other than like bringing back extinct species that we need for their evolutionary niche in the ecosystem, we should not try to stop death,