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I guarantee trying to save dying species is just an emotional reaction with very little logic behind it. I know it feels sad to see them go, but that's life. We like nothing to suffer, but somebody's gotta be eaten alive from head to toe, right? THATS LIFE

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Somebody's gotta be eaten alive. So why not you, bcjdjsndon?

I refuse to believe that humanity on a whole is that incapable. Or at least unwilling to try to do something different.

There's plenty of logic to it, but it depends on your values. What do you value? If you care about your descendants or humanity in general, then undoing some of our destruction of habitats and the outsized impact of our predation/invasive species introduction is a benefit.

Values are emotional not logical, massively reaching with that rebuttal

This is an illogical comment. If you value nothing then you have nothing to gain by logic anyway. What's the logic in eating if you don't value your life?

If the species are dying because of us then it's not just life, it's our behavior driving their extinction. Logic doesn't tell you what to value. You value whatever, then you reason about what you value, how to preserve it, etc.

> If the species are dying because of us then it's not just life, it's our behavior driving their extinction.

call me crazy but i think human behavior is in fact a subset of "life"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder

Murder laws are to stop the proletariat dwindling their own numbers

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