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> Elephants are important for the ecosystem, IIRC something like 70% of all species in certain areas rely on them. If you remove them from the ecosystem by dome
by PhasmaFelis 9y ago
> Elephants are important for the ecosystem, IIRC something like 70% of all species in certain areas rely on them. If you remove them from the ecosystem by domesticating them, you are doing a damaging the ecosystem in multiple way.
I'm not sure why you think this is an either/or proposition. I mean, I accept that farming elephants isn't practical for a lot of reasons, but no one's talking about putting every living elephant on a farm.
- adamnemecek 9y agoEffectively that's what would happen under a legal ivory sales system. Poachers would effectively wipe them out in the wild.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoWhich they're doing anyway. It might not improve the situation, but it can hardly make it worse.
- adamnemecek 9y agoNo universally no. Countries that have shoot in sight poaching policies have very low poaching rates.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoWhy would that change if elephants were also farmed?
- adamnemecek 9y agoThere are other ways of making the situation better?
- eru 9y agoThe perfect is the enemy of the good?
- eru 9y agoHow does due process work? Could anybody just murder anyone else and give a credible defense of "I thought that guy was a poacher?".