There are many different points of view on what went down, and it just won't die.

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They won't let it die.

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Unlike, say, a Tamagotchi (or, you know, a real animal), Furby won't die if you don't feed it -- though it may get cranky.

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But allowing gorillas and chimpanzees to die, or killing them off, won't improve people's lives: it will impoverish them.

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