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Why do we worry about about animals going extinct when we are all severely endangered?

Now people keep saying, "this animal is going to go extinct." The response is "well, there's lots of other animals just like that." Then the argument goes back to "Well this animal has a specific kind of trait that the others don't have, i.e. its fur is brown!" I don't get these arguments. With these lines of reasoning, isn't every human severely endangered and then extinct when they die? I mean, we each possess our own individualized traits. Why aren't some Greenpeace members running around me constantly with shields protecting me from dangerous people?

Public Comments

1. Humans are not even close to endangered. In fact, our population is exploding. We are doubling our population every 50 years. At our current rate of population growth, we will have more than 9 billion people on the planet by 2050. However, if you are that concerned, then just have lots of kids that are exactly like you.
2. The human race isn't going extinct though. They are saving certain animals of their kind because there are no other ones like it. With humans we try to preserve the cultures more than the individual people except in certain areas. There are a lot of endangered languages that we are trying to save the people and the language to keep their culture alive.
3. I'm not about to tear down your terrible argument based on excessive projection and intellectualization. It would be fun, but also time consuming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism#Vaillant.27s_categorization_of_defense_mechanisms
4. How selfish, the human population is over running the planet and killing it and you think we are endangered?