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That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor people just trying to survive. The world is rarely that simple.

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Yes but there's six billion of our species and very few rhino left. You could wipe out all the world's poachers and it be a rounding error on human population. While I don't think advocating killing anyone is a good idea, I have no sympathy for poachers.

What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.

Everybody is equal, except the people we don't like.

Yeah, it sure is an affront to the basics of civilized society when violent criminals are prosecuted. I mean, what justification is there aside from "we don't like them"?

Because I support prosecuting animal poachers, I do not approve of hunting them like animals themselves.

(Shrug) Sorry, I'm not 'equal' to a poacher. That's an idea that somebody spun from whole cloth, one that a lot of other people seem to accept as an unjustified axiom.

Although I don't support it myself, I live in America where there is the death penalty, so we already kill people for doing things we don't like.

I am advocating that the defense that poachers are just some poor schmuck that wants to feed himself is bullshit.

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