readoncontradiction [none/use name]

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  • I met Speed once in Dublin, I violently pushed my way through a crowd of twelve year olds that were yelling the nword to see Speed, he was in a car surrounded by a security detail of big black dudes wearing sunglasses, I ran up to the car and pressed my face up to glass cracking it and leaving a bit of blood on the window. The security detail threw me to the ground but were overwhelmed by the twelve year olds. It was absolute chaos, I was about to be trampled to death like it was a South Korean Halloween Party, until Speed rolled down the window, climbed through it, and started barking like a dog on the roof of his car. The crowd of racist twelve year old fell silent as Speed went on a long rant about being the son of Ronaldo, I managed to get up during this, and I immediately charged him asking for a selfie. The car drove off with Speed still on the roof, he fell off, and was torn limb from limb by his rabid fans, I got a lock of his hair. Overall I would say he is a pretty cool dude.



















  • 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,