• @dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      202 years 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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        122 years 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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          02 years 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

      • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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        52 years 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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          62 years 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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            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
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              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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                2 years ago

                Eco fascist drivel.

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

                “Crossing the border is illegal!!!”

      • Fuckass [none/use name]
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        32 years ago

        Do you really think the poachers surrounded by wild animals that can kill them and ‘animal loving’ deaths squads are living lavishly and eating lobster and steak dinners?

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      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.

      • Fuckass [none/use name]
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        12 years ago

        I mean, pirates aren’t just smashing and grabbing diamonds out the store. They’re holding actual workers hostage while the executives are on some yacht, so I don’t really care one way or another about them. But the whole “killing poachers” shit is greenwashing nonsense that not only allow vigilante murders, but also victimize random people who have nothing to do with poaching because when you put out a flier recruiting killers, you don’t get the most stable people