Why would anyone be opposed to de-extinction?

[Lee-Lee]

48. There is a time when this may be a good idea. Not now.

If we have the ability now, or in the near future, all we should do at the moment is make sure that DNA is protected so we can do it at a later time.

But now? We only have so much money and so many resources to work with. I would much rather all that effort and research went into finding new ways to feed the hungry around the world, grow crops where they can't in many places, cure diseases, and work on climate change.

You have $100,000,000 to dedicate to science. If it better spent bringing the Dodo back, or trying to find a cure or better genetic test for breast cancer?

At this point bringing extinct species back would be far more about the vanity of man and those doing it than any valid scientific purposes. And a sign of very misplaced priorities.