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How would that help? No one would know it was poisoned until the rhino was dead. The poachers wouldn't even find out until people stopped buying rhino horn beca

How would that help? No one would know it was poisoned until the rhino was dead. The poachers wouldn't even find out until people stopped buying rhino horn because it was killing uneducated, superstitious people thousands of miles away - which is to say, far far too late. The loss of the rhino and the elephant would be tragic, but those people who consume it do not deserve to die - they don't understand what they're doing or what they're causing, and they are worth more than rhinos. Edit, since I can't respond to your comment: There is already an information battle to convince people that traffic in and using rhino horn is not possibly good for them. If they will not believe scientists telling them that, they won't believe it's poisoned. Nothing short of a mass market and culture shift is likely to change their beliefs. Telling them it's poisoned would certainly have too many misses and too little reach to be acceptable.

thaumasiotes 10y ago
> How would that help? No one would know it was poisoned until the rhino was dead. The poachers wouldn't even find out until people stopped buying rhino horn because it was killing uneducated, superstitious people thousands of miles away. You would tell them. How do people currently know that rubbing alcohol has been poisoned? > Edit, since I can't respond to your comment: There is already an information battle to convince people that traffic in and using rhino horn is not possibly good for them. If they will not believe scientists telling them that, they won't believe it's poisoned. Nothing short of a mass market and culture shift is likely to change their beliefs. Telling them it's poisoned would certainly have too many misses and too little reach to be acceptable. 1. Yes, you can respond to any comment on its own page. 2. Yes, if the horns are actually poisoned, people will learn that they're poisoned. The feedback loop here is quite short: you announce that you've poisoned the rhino horns, people scoff, say "they'd never have the guts", and eat the horns, and then a lot of those people die. Word will get around. If they're not poisoned, then of course people won't believe that, but it's hard to blame them for accurately not believing your self-serving lies.
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foota 10y ago
It wasn't clear to me at first that the people you're talking about in your edit are the buyers of the horn. It does seem to me though that if the horns were all poisoned people would stop using them rather quickly. The question remains whether that would be worth it.
serge2k 10y ago
> but those people who consume it do not deserve to die Don't have to kill them. Take some rhino horn and find yourself with a couple days of crippling stomach cramps and you probably won't want to do it again.
x2f10 10y ago
>How would that help? Demand will crumble.

thaumasiotes 10y ago

> How would that help? No one would know it was poisoned until the rhino was dead. The poachers wouldn't even find out until people stopped buying rhino horn because it was killing uneducated, superstitious people thousands of miles away. You would tell them. How do people currently know that rubbing alcohol has been poisoned? > Edit, since I can't respond to your comment: There is already an information battle to convince people that traffic in and using rhino horn is not possibly good for them. If they will not believe scientists telling them that, they won't believe it's poisoned. Nothing short of a mass market and culture shift is likely to change their beliefs. Telling them it's poisoned would certainly have too many misses and too little reach to be acceptable. 1. Yes, you can respond to any comment on its own page. 2. Yes, if the horns are actually poisoned, people will learn that they're poisoned. The feedback loop here is quite short: you announce that you've poisoned the rhino horns, people scoff, say "they'd never have the guts", and eat the horns, and then a lot of those people die. Word will get around. If they're not poisoned, then of course people won't believe that, but it's hard to blame them for accurately not believing your self-serving lies.

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foota 10y ago

It wasn't clear to me at first that the people you're talking about in your edit are the buyers of the horn. It does seem to me though that if the horns were all poisoned people would stop using them rather quickly. The question remains whether that would be worth it.

serge2k 10y ago

> but those people who consume it do not deserve to die Don't have to kill them. Take some rhino horn and find yourself with a couple days of crippling stomach cramps and you probably won't want to do it again.

x2f10 10y ago

>How would that help? Demand will crumble.