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No, we shouldn't bring back long-extinct species as per Jurassic Park.
If we did, we'd either be introducing invasive species to currently existing species and ecotypes, and that's ethically dubious; or we'd be introducing invasive species with no immunity to current conditions so they'd die off and not in a fun way, and so that they can be targeted by whatever folk-medicine beliefs spring up around them, and that's ethically dubious; or we'd be bringing back long-dead species just so they could be sacrificed and dissected, or never know a life outside of zoos, and that's incredibly ethically dubious.
Humanity needs to get a lot better at compassionate wildlife management before we start dicking over new (old?) and different wildlife.
If we did, we'd either be introducing invasive species to currently existing species and ecotypes, and that's ethically dubious; or we'd be introducing invasive species with no immunity to current conditions so they'd die off and not in a fun way, and so that they can be targeted by whatever folk-medicine beliefs spring up around them, and that's ethically dubious; or we'd be bringing back long-dead species just so they could be sacrificed and dissected, or never know a life outside of zoos, and that's incredibly ethically dubious.
Humanity needs to get a lot better at compassionate wildlife management before we start dicking over new (old?) and different wildlife.
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Also, why, if we could resurrect, say, a trilobite, would it be immoral to keep it in a captive environment for the rest of its life, if we were able to take care of it properly?