On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> A more effective thing to do to reduce the 'uck' factor is to engineer the cow to
Er, this is untrue. After all, the Great White Shark is ugly by default.
Suppose we took a bunny rabbit and engineered it to be especially healthy
and horribly ugly. Animal rights activists would surely show pictures
saying "Extropians want to turn this <picture of a cute bunny rabbit> into
> be more ugly, thus reducing the 'cute' factor from which the 'yuck' factor is
> derived. Most animal rightists, even the most casual ones, are usually motivated
> to avoid eating animals because of what we hunters call the 'Bambi Syndrome', and
> this is why they usually focus their efforts on saving and protecting 'cute'
> animals, while they do little for ugly animals. You don't get many protesters
> trying to protect the Great White Shark.....