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You would think that, but we can't even agree to eradicate the hippopotamus from the Americas. Why? Animals rights groups think it is apparently an issue to just exterminate them. These are literal invasive species brought in by a drug lord.

If it turned out that mammoths were actually a problem, we'd never agree to actually control the population.

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There's no reason we should be able to agree. Some people like them and want them protected, other people hate them and want them gone. If it were really clear that they were harmful, shooting them all would be super easy, I could probably do it myself. Why would the fact that the guy who introduced them is a drug lord matter? Hippos can't inherit original sin.

Your comment made me laugh, but to actually answer:

It matters from a Chesterton's Fence perspective: We know that the hippos were not brought for any good reason, inevitability, etc.

Probably one of the few actual wins of human activity.

Why?

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