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> the Wildlife Conservation Act, put in place in 2013, carries a life sentence or fine of $200,000 for offenders; however, the sentences weren’t acting as a st
by cornholio 8y ago
> the Wildlife Conservation Act, put in place in 2013, carries a life sentence or fine of $200,000 for offenders; however, the sentences weren’t acting as a strong enough deterrence.
Clearly, a life sentence is an extremely strong deterrent. You will not gain significant deterrence from capital punishment, people that are committing the crime clearly don't expect to be caught. Or they have such desperate circumstances so as to completely skew their risk/reward perception - case in which capital punishment can even be seen as immoral.
Therefore, attention should be focused on properly enforcing the existing law, making sure the fines are applied in addition to strong prison sentences, going after the ring leaders, their profits and cronies in office, etcetera.
You cannot fake a working judicial system with political theater and draconian sentences applied only to those poor enough to get caught.
- Semirhage 8y agoI agree, unless this empowers anti-poachers to use lethal force more freely in the field, then I’m all for it. I realize that sadly, the poacher on the ground is the low man on the economic totem of poaching, but they’re also the sharp end of that stick. We don’t really have time to change and improve the relevant societies before there’s nothing left to protect. We should have been doing that more actively for decades, but now that it’s come to this, we need snipers.