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		kbart on May 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The last male northern white rhino It's so fuckin sad, I literary cried reading it. I simply don't get how we (as humankind) cannot prevent such disasters happening while wasting billions on much less important things.

dragonwriter on May 14, 2015 [–]

The two main reasons are:

1. Lots of humanity doesn't agree that those are less important things, and

2. Among those that have a value system that does agree with you on that point, there's still a tragedy of the commons problem.

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