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Anyone understands the point of the endangered species thing? What does it matter if some species go extinct? Extinction is a natural part of evolution. Fighting it has always been a head scratcher for me.

In the late 70s I work at a US installation on a remote tropical island. "Vendors" sold hair combs and comb-like things for womens hair made from polished turtle shell. One of our guys was going on his annual leave, bought $1000 worth of the combs and said he could sell them for $10K in the states. When he arrived in the US they were seized by customs. 6 months later he got them in the mail from Customs with a letter that after testing they were found to be made of plastic. "Combman" never lived it down.