Can you think of a situation, where we deliberately want to make a species extinct? How would you justify it?

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Humans can cause extinction of species through various means.
The small pox virus (Variola) has been successfully eradicated through a campaign of the WHO that involved mass vaccination.
If some microbes are dangerous to human society and other than having a parasitic interaction, do not serve any useful purpose, then such an attempt is justified.

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