This is a deeply philosophical question. But it's highly dependent on the circumstances of a particular animal's extinction. Is it ethical to resurrect the Wolly Mammoth into our current climate when it's significantly warmer than the climate of the Ice Age? Likely not.
Was a species hunted to extinction? Maybe restoring that population would ease our collective conscience to some minuet degree.
So maybe bringing back some of these species is being done so as an apologetic gesture? Perhaps out of hubris?
To be fair, we're notoriously cruel to the animals that we farm for mass food production and less directly to wild animals (when human activity destroys their habitat). Images of such farm operations might remind you of conditions imposed on alleged dissedents by dictatorial regimes. You know, those same conditions that are condemned as atrocious when imposed on humans by humans. And this kind of treatment is still absolutely prevalent today on humans and other animals.
Interesting! This reminds me of Knot Theory which is a branch of Topology within Mathematics. I don't personally crochet but it appears that indeed the knot theory is applicable for crochet as well. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Always amazed at how mathematics' various specialties relate to everyday activities in sometimes very subtle ways.
As a tangent -- In studying numerical analysis, I was tested with a question of a logistic model applied to rabbit populations (of all things). You know, the one that generates bifurcation diagrams and is closely associated with chaos theory. Anyway, it was just a reminder in the moment about how such seemingly familiar phenomena can be explained by these seemingly obscure mathematical models (such as numerical differentiation.)
Knot theory is mostly inapplicable to crochet. The nature of how a crochet is made, by curling a single unbroken chain around itself, means almost all crochet is equivalent to the unknot. You can see this in the way crochet unravels all the way if you pull on the end of the thread.
Trolling or nah? If the author of this link is struggling with spell check and hasn't written assembly language before, this doesn't provide much confidence for an accurate transcription of the source code printout.
Good luck on the exercise, though! Don't worry, Bill and his legal team will be watching you closely. They'll be cheering you on (but not for the reasons you think they will be.)
Was a species hunted to extinction? Maybe restoring that population would ease our collective conscience to some minuet degree.
So maybe bringing back some of these species is being done so as an apologetic gesture? Perhaps out of hubris?
To be fair, we're notoriously cruel to the animals that we farm for mass food production and less directly to wild animals (when human activity destroys their habitat). Images of such farm operations might remind you of conditions imposed on alleged dissedents by dictatorial regimes. You know, those same conditions that are condemned as atrocious when imposed on humans by humans. And this kind of treatment is still absolutely prevalent today on humans and other animals.