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Aren't the foreign smugglers/buyers just as colonial and interfering... only they do it with different money to a different group of desperate people. Once you
by kurthr 9y ago
Aren't the foreign smugglers/buyers just as colonial and interfering... only they do it with different money to a different group of desperate people. Once you accept that it's ok for foreign money to align the goals of "brown people", it's not that strange that NGOs and with their diabolical support of anti-poaching laws would compete with smugglers. It's not property rights, because I see nothing to show that those tortoises were rightfully gained rather than grabbed off of public or even other's private lands.
Why find one worse than the other?
Why support corrupt cops more than those enforcing the law?
Why support Thai over Israeli?
p.s. I can read about a foreign power covertly using money and propaganda to control the FBI in the Washington Post.
- jstanley 9y agoI don't have strong opinions either for or against poaching animals, but: > It's not property rights, because I see nothing to show that those tortoises were rightfully gained rather than grabbed off of public or even other's private lands. People are innocent until proven guilty. I might see nothing to show that your shirt was rightfully gained rather than grabbed off a member of the public or even another's private land, but you've got no obligation to show me that. If I want to interfere, the obligation is upon me to show that it is stolen.
- kurthr 9y agoWe arent talking about someone's pet. If it was illegal to ship shirts without a license, and I'm shipping hundreds of them dangerously packed in a huge suitcase... then maybe it is my obligation. Who's to say they aren't carrying salmonella and it infects someone on the plane? For example you can't take more than $10k in cash out of the US (or into most countries) without declaring it. Is that an example of colonialism?
- jstanley 9y agoBeing illegal to ship shirts without a licence, and illegal to ship more than $10k without declaring it, are both perfect examples of invasive regulations making criminals out of harmless members of the public.