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Well, the destinction between possible and desirable seems to become the big question of this century.
What is actually bad in "creating" a Dodo or an Neanderthal?
While the Dodo was extinct by men (so why not give him a second chance?) Neanderthals died for reasons still unknown to science, but apparently they were quite intelligent and might even be able to cope with modern life.
The more interesting aspect is what you do with them once you made them (at least with the Neanderthals, the Dodos might end as tasty alternative to chicken (giving poohbear_nc just another fit)). Raise them as humans and send them off once they are 18 or keep them as guinea pig and then discard them-remember, we talk about near human beings.
Will they have to fight for their humanship like the bicentennial man in Asimov's short story or will they be considered as advanced chimpanzees and kept in labs for their whole life.
So hopefully the conclusion goes to " not desirable" in the long run...
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