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Animal rights are more important than human rights
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What is with the Chinese? Can't they get it up without some sort of horn?
Diana
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It isn't like the poachers don't know what they are doing.
Simple way to protect yourself from getting shot... don't poach the protected animals.
How hard is that?
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defending their rights. Glad you support summary executions. Hope a den of girl scouts don't wander in there by accident.
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the scouts.girl/boy/ would get a merit badge for poaching, and if a poacher gets shot its all good
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"A massive anti-poaching operation has been launched with orders issued to shoot-on-sight any unauthorised person inside Kaziranga's premises," Rockybul Hussain, northeastern Assam state's forest minister, told AFP in the reserve
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to steal your possessions and hurt or destroy your family. You have the right to shoot him dead, dead, dead.
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the Royal Hunting Grounds and all the animals within, were considered the property of the king, so if you poached you could be executed forthwith. Doesn't have anything to do with animal rights. Animals do not have rights.
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and enforcing its laws.
The same thing used to happen in the US when they caught a horse thief. It wasn't about the horse's rights.
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I don't. We just have a lot more people who need to ask for permission. I don't think that is more civilized.
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Food, hides...maybe special medicinal components. Killing for trophys, to be macho, or just for the H of it is not just a violation of the animal but a crime against the planet. Killing a rhino for it's horn so folks can increase what they think is their chance to score, is unthinkable. As well, an elephant is not just the provider of 4 umbrella stands. Good grief.
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There's only a few of us that can bring down a Rhino by jumping on it's back and slitting it's throat.
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How do they know if it is a poacher with or without a gun if they shoot before they check.
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Do you want them to post all the procedures that the Park Rangers in determining when to shoot?
They "Just know" they're up to no good.
Glad to see you've "come ashore" and are no longer concerned with the whales.
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