• dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      Poverty hardly justifies crime. It is a cause not a justification. They are still poachers doing illegal hunting for protected animal on protected land. Also poaching is rather lucrative, even if the government raises income 200% poaching will still stand out.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        11 months ago

        yeah no if I can feed my starving family by killing some animal I would take that in a heartbeat. In contrast, if I can work in a factory and make enough to live decently I'm not going into the woods to try and kill something that can kill me back and risking getting into trouble with the law. Have fun in perfect actor land where you live though.

        • dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          They can choose to hunt deer or I don't know monkey to feed their family or even steal food. All justified. Poaching is extremely lucrative. Its like saying I'm robbing my sixth bank because I'm poor. They are not eating the rhino. I'm not OK with gunning these people but it is a shit act even if you are poor

          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            11 months ago

            Like yeah it's a bad thing to do, but I can see why someone might do it once to try and set their family up. Yes they should be stopped and punished, but should we personally hold them in contempt? There's definitely better off people involved with it, fuck them, and fuck the shit heads who are making the market.

          • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            One side is hunting animals.

            The other is murdering humans.

            Even beginning to equivocate this is insane.

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        • dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          This is all relative. Their paychecks are nothing compared to what people have in the west, they are not eating lobster. Its like you get 1 usd a day for manual labor or 100 usd for a single rhino shot. So the difference is multiple fold. They know what are they getting into. It's like someone asks you to sell coke. You know you will get easy money and you know the risks as well.

      • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Hunting is perfectly normal and has been a key to human survival since the dawn of man. It's suddenly immoral because some capitalist country said so?

        Rethink what crime is.

        • Gork@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          There's a bit of a difference between hunting a gazelle for its meat and another for poaching an endangered rhino for its horn.

          • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Because otherwise rich people won't get to see them on safari.

            No animal life is inherently more valuable than one another. The concept is absurd and so full of contradictions.

            I'm not about to cheer the violent murder of a human being to preserve a fucking safari.

            • ɠισƚԋҽϝʅσɯ@lemm.ee
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              11 months ago

              Nah fuck humans. The worst animals of them all. I wont advocate violence but I wont shed a tear over a dead poacher nor rich horn buyers. Humans can just make more humans, with ease. Rhinos aint never called me bad names. Im im the Rhinos corner.

              • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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                11 months ago

                Eco fascist drivel.

                You’ll be cheering when they start killing climate refugees in a couple decades

                “Crossing the border is illegal!!!”

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Honestly, this is the biggest thing that sets off my 👁 senses whenever some version of this post goes around. It squicks me out in the same way as the "Somali pirates OWNED" genre of content that was popular a while back. Stuff that encourages and socially conditions us us to cheer the killing of people who's have been brought to this point by hostile economic conditions.

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