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		slurgfest on Dec 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct Breeds with really severe genetic problems that make them miserable and completely unviable outside human care should be allowed to go extinct. It's not ethical.

sliverstorm on Dec 15, 2012 [–]

It's an impossible battle. Too many people enjoy, for example, like that pugs have a fundamentally non-functional nose.

freshhawk on Dec 16, 2012 | [–]

I don't think it's impossible, this seems like the kind of cultural change that is just an extension of the changes that have happened and are happening.

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