An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.

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    8 hours ago

    I mean, the guise we use for hunting is that it’s for population control to properly conserve the environment. I suppose if you wanted to say there were some populations that needed controlling on environmental grounds, like billionaires or something, I might be amenable.

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      4 hours ago

      It’s more like that hunting permit fees fund actual conservation efforts, not that there’s really much of a legitimate conservation effect from the hunting itself. (Except maybe when it’s an invasive species.)

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        4 hours ago

        Sure, I guess you could apply license fees for hunting permits on billionaires to conservation efforts if you insist.

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      When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment. Deer in North America is an example that needs to be controlled.

      Is don’t know to what extent though.

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        7 hours ago

        When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment.

        Exactly…

        When corrupt capitalists are “saved” from taxation, they tend to hoard wealth and wreck havoc on the economy. Drastically lowering not only everyone else’s quality of life, but in many cases their physical health and well-being along with everyone they know and interact with

        It’s a classic trolly problem.

        Track one: about 8,300,000,000 people

        Track 2: 3,500 people that aimed the trolleybat track 1.

        Would you turn the switch back so it saves 8.3 billion people, at the expense of of the less than 4 thousand people that put us in front of the trolley?