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How is this specific thing "very bad for the majority of human kind"? It's very bad for rhinos and tigers, for sure.

• throwaway5752 8y ago
  This specific thing isn't, just taken against the broader backdrop of similar events and trends.
• malloryerik 8y ago
  It's just a disgusting little ornament on the much larger birthday cake we've got baking in our oven. To the backdrop of mass die-offs, the rules preventing the extinction of rhinos and tigers are cut by a few power-hungry fools seeking the political support of a few greedy fools who will sell those animals' horns and bones as false cures to a few superstitious fools who believe these worthless tusks and bones have magical powers. It's such dark planetary tragicomedy -- with a focus on "tragic", a kind of satanic genius that even Mikhail Boulgakov couldn't have dreamed up, and it's real.
• jrace 8y ago
  The idea that we can exploit and destroy a species for our own supposed and unproven benefit is very short sighted and shows we are not a species capable of living holistically with our world.
• SolaceQuantum 8y ago
  Encouraging the poaching of keystone species like the tiger is bad for the ecosystem and by consequence any advantages humanity gains from the ecosystem are lost.