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Out of all the bullet points on page 182, which seem most relevant to your text's message and purpose? Why?
Some of the more relevant bullet points for my text would include moving the readers to feel a certain way, exploring a topic, and reflecting on a topic. As for moving the readers to feel a certain a way, the author does this by providing information on the different ethical issues that are found with the de-extinction of species. He presents the facts about the different issues that could occur with this process and provides insight on what would happen if this process were to in fact take place. This has the readers feel either strongly about not supporting the de-extinction process or feel slightly in support of doing it.
As for exploring a topic, the author provides helpful analysis on the ways de-extinction would be unethical. It would involve a process that would bring back deceased species to life, and if it were to actually happen, could destroy the Earth. There are different sub-topics that revolve around the main topic/idea of de-extinction. Some of those ideas include the respect for the lives of animals and humans that are currently alive. Others are pointing out we can play a "role of God" referring to the ability that we have that can clone DNA material and create a species that almost identically reflects the already extinct species.
The third bullet point that I thought is most relevant to the text's message and purpose was reflecting on the topic. The topic being de-extinction, readers are left the chance to explore this process in greater detail or reject this idea by finding it to be a hazard to society. The reflection is important because rather than having the author do that, readers are in control to see the different ways this process is unethical and can perhaps inform more people about how this process is more dangerous than beneficial.
Which bullet points do not seem relevant to your text's message and purpose? Why not?
The bullet points that I thought did not seem to relevant to my text's message and purpose included persuading readers of something, expressing an idea or opinion, and advocating for change. The reason these do not seem relevant is due to the fact that author explicitly mentions more than one time in the text the purpose of the text is to not persuade readers to favoring one position over another, but to read facts about both sides and decide which to favor from there. The author provides the ways the process of de-extinction seems unethical and does not express his personal view of whether he agrees with this notion. As for advocating for change, this is no change advised in this text. There is only information provided to readers for them to have a sense of what this process would do if it were to take place.
Are there nuances and layers to the message the author/speaker is trying to get across? If so, what are they? If not, why not?
The author goes from sub-topic from another to provide more and more information for readers to view when comparing to the overall topic, the idea of de-extinction. As he specifically describes the sub-topics and what would happen to the world if de-extinction to occur, more information than not provides negative analysis of the kinds of ways people would be upset with the idea. The sub-topics previously mentioned in the first question help answer this question. It shows if de-extinction was possible to create, the sub-topics would bring upon the important point how a majority of people would be in such disfavor of the idea, that the process would most likely never have to ability to take place.
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