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If you think it through, actually, when a zebra is being eaten alive by a lion, that\u2019s one of the worst experiences that you could possibly have. And if we are compassionate toward our pets and our kids, and we see a squirrel suffering in our backyard and we try to help it, why wouldn\u2019t we actually want to help the zebra?\u201d We could genetically engineer lions into herbivores, he suggested, or drone-drop in-vitro meat whenever arificial intelligence detects a carnivore\u2019s hunger, or reengineer \u201cecosystems from the ground up, so that all the evolutionarily stable equilibriums that happen within an ecosystem are actually things that we consider ethical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Come With Us if You Want to Live: Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley” by Sam Frank | Harper\u2019s Magazine January 2015<\/a> (via gamamb<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you think it through, actually, when a zebra is being eaten alive by a lion, that\u2019s one of the worst experiences that you could possibly have. 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