[SoCal Pubbie]

Yes. If you don’t care about the poaching death of four endangered apes, why should you care about the poaching death of eight? Or eight hundred? And if no one cared, then nothing would be done and the endangered apes would be extinct. Most of us thinks that's not good. As another poster asked, would you really prefer a world with no animals at all?

Why would you take that? I try to think about the ramifications of my actions as if everyone did them. For example, one person tossing a cigarette butt out the window might not be a big deal, but thousands of drivers tossing them all day long leads to a littered, ugly highway.

Thinking things through is good. You might try it sometime.

[Red in Blue PA]

Well said.

Many posters here hit “Submit” before thinking, and thisis all to evident from their words.

[IronJack]

Thinking things through is good.

Agreed. But thinking things through does not equate to arguing at the extremes. Not every action begets an absolute. Killing four apes does not equate to killing EVERY ape, or, even more absurdly, every animal! And THAT is why I don't care, not because I celebrate the senseless slaughter of four apes, but because I think that that's where it will stop.

You need to stop overreacting to every situation that scares you by taking it to an extreme and then finding a "solution" for that extreme.