For VS Against: Should we create a dinosaur zoo?
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FOR
Admission prices can bring in a fortune
Merchandise sales can bring in a fortune
Lodging and food sales can bring in a fortune,
especially if the zoo is built in a remote location
like an island
We can learn more about behavior from studying
living specimens than we can learn from dead
specimens
We have the technology to control the traits of
any specimens that we create, including gender,
to keep population in check
If we control the traits of dinosaurs to all be one
gender, then the dinosaurs will not be able to
breed, so the only way to keep the population
going would be for geneticists to make more,
providing geneticists with job security
Entertainment is provided for guests
Field trip opportunities will teach kids more than
they can learn in a classroom
Safety can be provided by electric fences, high
walls, dinosaur tracking chips, machines that
allow workers to care for the dinosaurs from a
safe distance, building the zoo on an island to
contain any escaped animals, and hiring armed
security guards that have permission to injure or
kill an animal in an emergency
Dinosaurs were killed off by a global disaster, not
by natural selection, so their extinction was not
entirely natural; they deserve a second chance
Bringing back extinct species increases
biodiversity; this leads to more natural selection
or survival of the fittest, so animals in nature will
become stronger
Bringing back extinct species lets us study new
animals and possibly make important medical
discoveries
Keeping dinosaurs in captivity will allow us to
provide them with quality care, including plenty
of food and medical services
If the zoo has enough space, like an entire island,
then dinosaurs can be allowed to roam on a
reservation with plenty of space to stay happy,
while people can stay safe in a secure vehicle, like
on an African safari
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AGAINST
Paleontologists have discovered dinosaurs with
very large claws and teeth; they’re dangerous!
If anybody gets hurt, then it can result in
lawsuits, costing a fortune
If dinosaurs are no longer extinct, then we
won’t need paleontologists to dig up their
fossils anymore, so they’ll lose their jobs
Electric fences can injure dinosaurs, which is
cruel and costs money to treat their wounds
Keeping population in check by only cloning
female DNA is cruel because animals have an
instinct to breed, which they could no longer
do, resulting in angry dinosaurs
Keeping population in check by only cloning
female DNA is unreliable because genetic
mutations can still cause males to be born;
what would be done with the male “mistakes”
when they are born? Killing them would be
cruel, and keeping them would be a risk
Bringing dinosaurs back would require eggs
from living animals (ostriches are the largest);
we’d have to keep them in captivity to harvest
the eggs, which is cruel and costs more money
Dinosaur DNA is millions of years old; it has not
adapted to modern diseases and nutrition, so
they will get sick often which is cruel and
creates high medical costs
Dinosaurs are dangerous, with no hope to be
released into the wild; bringing them back
would only doom them to a life behind bars for
our entertainment, which is cruel
Dinosaur DNA is old and decomposed; we’d
have to fill in the missing parts with DNA from
other animals, which could have unpredictable
results
Technology requires power and can be broken
or tampered with; can’t be relied on for safety
There is the risk of dinosaur DNA falling into the
hands of bad people if stolen by employees
Building on an island for safety would make the
zoo expensive to reach, limiting visitors and
ticket sales
We’ve never actually seen living dinosaurs
before; they may be too strong or too smart for
us to keep them contained
Relying on guns in an emergency is cruel