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Why do we try to save endangered species? It is a question we no longer answer or even ask, since we regard the matter as settled: a species gets scarce enough, the US Fish and Wildlife Service issues a finding and the professionals swing into action, like firefighters, or a hospital trauma team. If the question does come up, it is answered easily by utilitarian claims, like the classic cure-for-cancer argument ("The biosphere is a pharmacopeia filled with treasures?"). It reduces all of life to the level of a lab rat, but it, and similar claims, serve the purpose of defending the Endangered Species Act from the regular assaults it faces. -1st paragraph.