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From: arromdee@cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Mutant flies
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Date: 27 May 91 15:17:25 GMT
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Reply-To: arromdee@cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
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In article <callahan.675353595@newton.cs.jhu.edu> callahan@cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan) writes:
>If "wipe out" means what it sounds like, isn't there a significant ethical
>issue involved?  I'm not convinced people have the right to cause the 
>extinction of a species even if it sometimes threatens human life.

I think we already handled these issues when smallpox was eradicated.
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