<span> evolved from biocentric ethics</span>
This is false. They wanted to conduct a scientific investigation of great depths and find out more of what lies in the oceans. They traveled while probing depths to see what lies beneath and discovered thousands of new species that were undocumented before because there was no technology to leave shallow water.
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Up until 1895, the U.S. didn't get involved when European governments would create puppet governments, so as to avoid obvious colonization.