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I think the term "Playing God" used to hold more weight, because it was encapsulating a big, weighty, concept into two words. Unfortunately, it's used to death to where it's kind of lost its meaning, like if you say the word "calculator" over and over and over and suddenly it doesn't sound like an english word even though you know what it means.

Population management concepts are often really interesting arguments to read about and assisted colonization in particular seems to be a very urgent topic, which just adds to the interest. Most people, when first asked, often think they don't have any opinion on the subject. But once you get them talking about things such as hunting and fishing, wildlife conflicts with livestock, wildlife conflicts with humans in urban and suburban settings, etc., they often realize they have some strong opinions on the matter and it doesn't take long to really start getting philosophical about humans, nature, control, lack of it, responsibility, lack of it, the whole nine yards.