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context: There's nothing on the planet that isn't currently threatened with extinction, but we keep talking about individual animals like they matter. >
  
  You've said nothing wrong. Don't let the downvotes impress upon you.
  You just didn't say your words in a way that the common person understands, making them think you were being cold.
  You would've been better received if you had said: "either we start treating all life as valuable or none of these individual species will have any importance because we will all be dead."
  They would have loved your comment. But instead they're bashing you for saying the same thing in a way that they don't like. Don't take it personally. Reddit passersby are often given the chance to be petty, sometimes they take advantage of it. >
  
  I’m autistic and this sums up so much of my anxiety about public speaking