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That is ad hominem in the extreme. Governments are charged with powers that individuals do not possess. If the state declares poaching, which is already by definition a crime, to be punishable by death, it is not murder if it is enforced by the state's hand.

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It is not ad hominem at all. Please refresh your vocabulary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Governments are also supposed to conduct a fair trial with due process before condemning someone to death.

Governments are also not to be bribed by foreigners to sell "poaching" to safari-hunters - while there own people starve. Governments are to get a problem by the source and ask why all those citizens in desperation turn towards poaching. Government is expected to be clever and spawn anti-poaching myths about peoples penises falling off or shrinking after eating rhino horn. Also, to expect the law to uphold in warzones - that is madness. If somebody wants to kill you, even the threat a judge can make from afar - of prison in a jar- is by far less worse then returning the hostile specimen back to the wild. There is no war, where the respect for the law in veterans does not decay to zero over time.

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