Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Aw, shucks, CCCLVII, we've philosophized and opinionated all over the place. And all manner of good factual information!
I propose a massively severe penalty - death - for anyone poaching these animals. Equal punishment for the trade of prohibited furs, tusks, teeth, etc. Death. That would help the population recover.
Poachers come in groups of about two to five, with enough food and water for the trip and enough firepower to gun down the animals as well as battle rangers with military assault rifles.
Shortwave said: lets put the value of an illegally taken animal over the value of a human life. Yea, that's it... Death to all poachers.
Seriously???
PETA would be so proud.
leadcounsel,
FWIW, if there was a single person participating or even reading along in this thread that was taking your opinion into consideration, you may have just lost them with that scary proposal.
Art Eatman said: I imagine most of the hunting folks here would rather shoot poachers than any member of an endangered or threatened species.
No disagreements with you there, in fact I whole heartedly agree with you. I took your comment the wrong way and was relating it to the previous comments of human beings being hard wired and having a human instinct that drives them to physically kill. But I still stand by what I said before, and I do not believe that human beings as a whole are still hard wired with the instinct to kill, that was the point I was trying to make.
Apparently at least Art is with me on this point!
NOBODY here that promotes sport hunting has answered my simple question. How is it ethically different than cock fighting or dog fighting - which humans have done for centuries? Killing animals for your entertainment?
I want to repeat myself, I have a distaste for Lion hunting, but I have to make peace with the advantages this has for the lion population on general as well as the people involved with this.
I do have a taste for one thing though......... Buffalo. My Tswana tracker says a cape buff contains the anger of God. Being n local, I get to hunt him ...solo!!!