Should pandas be allowed to go extinct?

[Osweo]

'We' do have a duty to do what we can. In the Panda's particular case, we could try to cull its competitors. How many Han does the world need anyway? They occupy no useful ecological space other than skinning cats and dogs alive, making dead baby soup, eating fish alive, torturing bears to death for their gall bladder products, eating ground down rhino horn and Amur tiger bones and any other weird bit of the rarest animals you can imagine...

That said though, 'we' in this case is certainly the Han themselves, and I doubt their government will allow the creature to go extinct. Unfortunately though, it may well end up a purely domestic animal in the process.

[Monolith]

Unless the majority of their population is wiped out, China is not going to be able to support pandas again. For Gods' sakes, they eat 84 pounds of bamboo every day! They serve no ecological niche other than that which tugs at the heart strings of bipeds who adhere to the "survival of the cutest" ideology. Out of all the endangered species I can think of, the panda seems like the most blatantly ridiculous one.

All endangered species should be restored though, so as to create a more level playing field for all of them. Let nature decide which species is "cute" or "fit".

[LoneWolf]

"I wana put a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save it's own species."

[Lulletje Rozewater]

I can't find any information about them playing any role other than eating crap tons of bamboo.

Heck, Psychnaut you got me here

“My basic view is that animal species only have value to the extent they have value to humans.”
That’s the most anthropocentric statement that can possibly be made. Let’s ignore the Panda for the moment. Are you honestly saying that we, as humans, are capable of understanding the value of all life on this planet? Because that’s what would be required to make your judgment. And what happens if you choose incorrectly?
Not to mention that you’re only one very slippery slope away from “I believe that humans have value only to the extent that they serve other humans”. Would you agree with that statement?
Here’s the rub: who judges? The Third Reich had some very clear ideas on what did and did not qualify as a superior example of the species.

Down with the Native Americans.
Down with the Amazonian tribes
Down with the Tueso
Down with the Gorillas
Down with the Orangutans
Down with the Waldensians - 0.05 million
Down with the Latvian Orthodox Church - 0.02 million

By the time we have eradicated all eco-useless creatures we have the whole world to fertilize

[Lulletje Rozewater]

"I wana put a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save it's own species."

The problems of the pandas and some Apricians are:-
(1) Their genitals do not match in size.
(2) The males do not instinctively know how to mate
(3) Females seldom come on 'heat'

(4) Females show no signs for males to know they are on 'heat'
(5) The females are irritated by the advances of males
(6) The pair often end up fighting each other causing injury





Now if evolution produces life on earth, the theory and simulations show that strong breeding ability has to be selected for, otherwise a species will not produce a large enough population for evolution act on.
Some may say that pandas have lost their reproductive ability because evolution is not working on them at the moment.

[Treffie]

Yes, I think they should be saved. Why is it that a creature needs to justify its own existence/survival? The panda just is, even though it doesn't serve any purpose other than looking cuddly. What else would the WWF have on its logo instead?



A koala perhaps? Erm...wait, they're on their way out too...........

[Kadu]

Can you imagine logging on TA and seeing a Panda yawning right next to...

The apricity forum, for Panda* preservation


*solely ethnic, otherwise change your diet you bamboo eating gluttons

[Psychonaut]

Why is it that a creature needs to justify its own existence/survival?

This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

[manu]

the new model is all right

[LoneWolf]

Think about it Pandas are like god's own biological radio carbon dating. Just like, as radioactive beta decay breaks down half of the carbon 14 in something every 5300+ years meaning that eventually there will be no more carbon 14 in afore mentioned source. Analogous to this situation when god created the world he put only so many pandas in it so that by their rate of decay we would one day be able to date the very world we live in. So according to my very scientific logic saving pandas is like playing god and should not be done lest we face the very dire consequences.