This simplification may, for example, be realistic in cases where the transgene conveys resistance to herbivores, such as the often-used Cry genes from Bacillus thuringiensis (Snow et al. 2003).
Arguably, both examples are realistic, albeit the terrorist ticking bomb scenario is often claimed by moral absolutists to be utterly fanciful.
But the difficulty is peripheral, since the example is not realistic.
How on earth, for example, is it realistic to compare a tiny Caribbean island with India, for example, when the latter has more than a billion people from which they can select their teams?
For some cases this is realistic, for example, in the Great Artesian Basin in Australia, where pumping of water reduces spring flows which are large distances away.
The Super Pool, for example, is surrounded by realistic artificial rocks covered with lichens and banked with impatiens, blossoming bromeliads in pinks and yellows, and plumeria, the Hawaiian flower whose white, red and yellow blossoms are used for leis.
Mr. Dangler, however, said the justice's example was not realistic.
King Kong, for example, was pretty realistic for its time, but our ideas about some of the dinosaurs that featured have dated and some aspects look poor only because our understanding has advanced, rather than any mistakes on the part of the effects crew.
