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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Ultimately though you have to consider do you want to be responsible for the idea of deliberately making another life form - however harmful or annoying - extinct ? Nobody has had that power before, I find it profound.
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We've had that power for some time, and continue to wield it. We just don't think about it. When the last passenger pigeon [or insert any number of species here] died, it was too late to ponder whether we should have killed them all or not.