Here's a Dumb Idea: To Eliminate All Suffering, Eliminate Predators!

I have written that our fear of suffering is becoming so neurotic that it threatens not only the recognition of human exceptionalism, but our rationality itself. Not only does the desire to eliminate suffering shade over into a desire to eliminate the sufferer, but the concept has become so elastic that it even now includes the suffering of nature.

Case in point: One of the world's most notable transhumanists, George Dvorsky -- whom I saw advocate "uploading" animal consciences into computers...