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This is a good strategy. I think it'd be even more effective if large bounties were offered for the body parts of poachers. Macabre, yet, somehow fitting.

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Belgium paid on the basis of body parts received already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

You'd run into the same problem everybody who pays for body parts runs into - defenseless people become a source of income for the unscrupulous.

Sounds like you should run for president of the Philippines.

That seems more than a little unfair. If you're in the middle of a protect nature preserve in the African bush, with the tools of your trade, you're not a victim. This isn't a case of mistaken identity, or just being in the wrong place, or pissing off the wrong people.

You don't see any way that giving incentives to people for killing poachers without a trial could go wrong?

I can't imagine any human endeavor that lacks the potential to go wrong, but I also don't think that's a reason not to try anything, ever.

I believe extrajudicial killings have a bit more than "the potential" to go wrong.

It's a pretty limited use case, unless you think that people tend to wander the African bush with chainsaws and elephant guns just because... reasons? You'd have to quite literally go well out of your way and leave civilization behind to be targeted.

Maybe you can tell me what exactly you suspect would go wrong in this limited scenario?

Well the person I responded to said we should offer rewards for murdering poachers. So the incentive would be to go out and murder people and plant chainsaws/rifles on them.

You wouldn't really even have to "go out in the bush" to kill them. You could kill someone and claim they were out there poaching.

Well, that's another person with their own ideas that have nothing at all to do with mine. Bounty programs on human lives is a terrible idea. Still, the fact that you've now decided to respond, not to me, but someone else by way of me tells me that you've run out of sensible objections and are grasping at straws.

I also think you're underestimating just how far out in the middle of nowhere we're talking about here, and how rough the area is. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, there are much much easier ways to make that happen in rural Africa.

"Well, that's another person with their own ideas that have nothing at all to do with mine. Bounty programs on human lives is a terrible idea. Still, the fact that you've now decided to respond, not to me, but someone else by way of me tells me that you've run out of sensible objections and are grasping at straws."

I have no clue what you are talking about. You initially responded to me [0]. You are very confused.

Anyway, I still think proximity to civilization should not be the main justification for extrajudicial executions. Thats just like my opinion man.

"I also think you're underestimating just how far out in the middle of nowhere we're talking about here, and how rough the area is. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, there are much much easier ways to make that happen in rural Africa."

I didn't mean kill someone and get away with it. I mean, if person x wants to kill person y to get payout z. That is why I responded to the initial commenter. Without a trial you can claim anyone was anywhere doing anything. You don't have to go to the bush. You can drive 2 miles out of town and kill them. But I obviously don't even know what your position is and honestly don't care so I may be "grasping at straws".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12586019

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