"If a problem was fixed, it wasn't a problem" is a really, really difficult cognition problem to crack. And unlike a lot of other fallacies it tends to affect

"If a problem was fixed, it wasn't a problem" is a really, really difficult cognition problem to crack. And unlike a lot of other fallacies it tends to affect the hyper-rationalist HN set worse than other demographics (who generally don't have a problem with the idea that someone fixed something). We saw the same thing on the front page here just last week in the Bald Eagle thread, pointing out that it wasn't particularly endangered and that even if it was it was never so in Alaska. This in a discussion about how it was not listed as endangered in the continental US anymore precisely because of the success of the conservation effort under the Endangered Species Act.