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Forums - Politics Discussion - Planned extinction: Is it ethical to deliberately wipe out a species?

 

Do you think it is?

Yes 69 56.56%
 
No 53 43.44%
 
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sergiodaly on 23 May 2015

I don't understand all this extra protection for the humans. We should go through and thrive by our strength and not by getting under a dome for extra protection. There's no evolution in a "no threat" world. If human are not in a real extinction threat situation, is hard to convince me that severe action is needed.

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curl-6 on 23 May 2015
Zappykins said:

That's one of the thigns we learned from HIV/AIDS treatments.  You always need 3.  Even if the 3rd one is only like 60% effective. 

Plus now half of the bunnies are immute to Myxoma.  So it's not so effective anymore.

I do know they were releasing something very recently in Sidney - from a bunny list.  So maybe there is something new going out.  Rabbit should only be indoor pets in Australia - not pest.

Or they could make tiny bunny killing robots.  They also need to do that with the monguses in Hawaii.  Similar devistation.

What's not well known is that the Calici virus was accidentally released; they were trialling it at a contained rabbit farm, with plans to release it if tests were successful, and it escaped into the wild before the trials were complete. Thankfully, it worked according to plan anyway.

And yeah, a third rabbit plague is definitely in order. The hard part is finding something that won't infect and kill native mammals like wallabies, bandicoots, and wombats. 

Planned extinction of introduced pests is completely acceptable in my book.