The "Abolitionists" want to genetically create a cruelty free world

[auroraglacialis]

I think I rarely ever hear such nonsense - except in some of the discussions or debates here. Finally I figured out where some of the people I have debating here on this kind of topic got their ideas from - or maybe they just had the same idea - or the source is elsewhere. But seriously - re-engineering the world to make it "cruelty free" with vegan lions and the lot? This is what self-proclaimed "ecologically thinking" techno-optimists dream of when they are high on the drug of technology and science? I am glad that they did not try to make Pandora that way, but rather there are predators there - so if Pandora would be (as some people seem to think) a genetically engineered world, at least it was not engineered by "Abolitionists" !

A biosphere without suffering is technically feasible. In principle, science can deliver a cruelty-free world that lacks the molecular signature of unpleasant experience. Not merely can a living world support human life based on genetically preprogrammed gradients of human well-being. If carried to completion, the abolitionist project entails ecosystem redesign, immunocontraception, marine nanorobots, rewriting the vertebrate genome, and harnessing the exponential growth of computational resources to manage a compassionate global ecosystem. Ultimately, it's an ethical choice whether intelligent moral agents opt to create such a world - or instead express our natural status quo bias and perpetuate the biology of suffering indefinitely.

Reprogramming Predators : Blueprint for a Cruelty-Free World