So much to address.
1. - I appreciate the passion you have towards this and the research you appear to have done.
2.- Your dismissing of the need to protect the animals is not incorrect, assuming we did indeed leave them alone they wouldn't need protection, however this thought is flawed because we won't, it just won't happen. Changing the laws won't fix this poaching is already illegal and it still happens, so because of this a certain degree of protection is necessary. Also to this other than poachers, people encroach on the animals territory for farm land, or other reasons, creating an income source from the animals that benefits the community gives them a reason to leave their territory alone.
3.- Teddy Roosevelt as you mentioned was an interesting character, he bagged 3,000 animals in africa but he also established the national parks in america to protect our wildlife so... good and bad, judge him for both actions not just one.
4.- As far as our population coming under control, there's evidence that that's already happening, every first world country except the USA has a negative birth rate. And as other countries develop their birthrate will likely decrease too. Some studies already claim that the human population will never reach 12 billion. but only time will tell for sure.
These are just my oppinions anyways
Interesting points, i appreciate you for taking your time to fully go through what I said, and I agree with your 1,3,4. In 4, yes China and India alone makes almost 50% of the world populationj and their population continues to grow, but in Europe and the americas it is declining.But no 2, yes its too late now, whats done is done and the animals have already become endangered or extinct and this is all due to human interference. If only this was a highly punishable offence and people raised concerned of animal cruelty in the early years of the 20th century. Not only they hunted them, made profits by selling their body parts (like elephant tusks), but they drove them away from their own homes to establish their territories there. This has lead to loss of life of so many innocent animals. But it is a good thing people today are speaking up against animal cruelty and are finally trying to protect animals. Regardless the kill to protect theory is illogical, and has proven bogus, but the damage done is irreversible as I gave the article on how the elephant population has reduced by 97% in the last century while it was justified with that lie, but the real purpose was to sell their tusks all along (and if such logic had validity, during disease epidemics like the highly contagious small pox and Spanish flu, we would have killed infected people gunning them down before they infected others, but that would have been considered a savage and immoral act, same case to animals). Whats done cannot be undone, but now in the 21st century when we realize the cruelty and the filthy business associated with trophy hunting we must be more vigilant, we must enforce extremely harsh punishment on hunters and poachers, we must discourage tourists from traveling to Africa to kill innocent animals teaching them moral values, we must ban all ivory trade markets, those who are caught buying animal body parts should be jailed as the market is mostly demand driven. Changing law never does anything, strictly enforcing them does. How would people feel when they have their elders and children gun downed by mass murderers, yet they dont care if its innocent animals like bears, deer, zebras, rhinos, hippos, etc who never harm people unless for self defense and all are living beings with their own family (or group). Strong vigilance and harsh punishments can finally bring this despicable act to an end. We may never be able to bring back the lives of the millions of innocent animals that died in the hands of hunters and poachers, but it is time to stop this despicable act for good and to stop further loss of innocent animal lives due to human cause and greed. Thank you for your well thought reply...
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So much to address.
1. - I appreciate the passion you have towards this and the research you appear to have done.
2.- Your dismissing of the need to protect the animals is not incorrect, assuming we did indeed leave them alone they wouldn't need protection, however this thought is flawed because we won't, it just won't happen. Changing the laws won't fix this poaching is already illegal and it still happens, so because of this a certain degree of protection is necessary. Also to this other than poachers, people encroach on the animals territory for farm land, or other reasons, creating an income source from the animals that benefits the community gives them a reason to leave their territory alone.
3.- Teddy Roosevelt as you mentioned was an interesting character, he bagged 3,000 animals in africa but he also established the national parks in america to protect our wildlife so... good and bad, judge him for both actions not just one.
4.- As far as our population coming under control, there's evidence that that's already happening, every first world country except the USA has a negative birth rate. And as other countries develop their birthrate will likely decrease too. Some studies already claim that the human population will never reach 12 billion. but only time will tell for sure.
These are just my oppinions anyways
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Interesting points, i appreciate you for taking your time to fully go through what I said, and I agree with your 1,3,4. In 4, yes China and India alone makes almost 50% of the world populationj and their population continues to grow, but in Europe and the americas it is declining.But no 2, yes its too late now, whats done is done and the animals have already become endangered or extinct and this is all due to human interference. If only this was a highly punishable offence and people raised concerned of animal cruelty in the early years of the 20th century. Not only they hunted them, made profits by selling their body parts (like elephant tusks), but they drove them away from their own homes to establish their territories there. This has lead to loss of life of so many innocent animals. But it is a good thing people today are speaking up against animal cruelty and are finally trying to protect animals. Regardless the kill to protect theory is illogical, and has proven bogus, but the damage done is irreversible as I gave the article on how the elephant population has reduced by 97% in the last century while it was justified with that lie, but the real purpose was to sell their tusks all along (and if such logic had validity, during disease epidemics like the highly contagious small pox and Spanish flu, we would have killed infected people gunning them down before they infected others, but that would have been considered a savage and immoral act, same case to animals). Whats done cannot be undone, but now in the 21st century when we realize the cruelty and the filthy business associated with trophy hunting we must be more vigilant, we must enforce extremely harsh punishment on hunters and poachers, we must discourage tourists from traveling to Africa to kill innocent animals teaching them moral values, we must ban all ivory trade markets, those who are caught buying animal body parts should be jailed as the market is mostly demand driven. Changing law never does anything, strictly enforcing them does. How would people feel when they have their elders and children gun downed by mass murderers, yet they dont care if its innocent animals like bears, deer, zebras, rhinos, hippos, etc who never harm people unless for self defense and all are living beings with their own family (or group). Strong vigilance and harsh punishments can finally bring this despicable act to an end. We may never be able to bring back the lives of the millions of innocent animals that died in the hands of hunters and poachers, but it is time to stop this despicable act for good and to stop further loss of innocent animal lives due to human cause and greed. Thank you for your well thought reply...