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Interesting scribe..... (none / 0) (#15)
by kdog on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 03:30:46 PM EST
needless to say I won't be wandering in the woods looking for dinner anytime soon....I might get locked up. I don't do permits:)

I'm not trying to defend these guys...anybody who would rather admire a bird stuffed on a mantle instead of flying through the sky or perched in a tree is a piker of the first order in my book.  I just don't know if it should be criminal.

And I got to thinking...how many narcs, undercovers, and informers are there at any given time?  More than a million?  That sh*t worries me...

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I understand your point, kdog, but (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by scribe on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 03:48:38 PM EST
the wider point is that not everyone thinks the way you do.  Without the laws in place prohibiting market hunting and the like, there would be no wildlife for anyone to enjoy.  That state of affairs - no wildlife (or at least nowhere near the historically-known-to-exist-previously numbers of it) - was the genesis of fish and game laws, game wardens (of whatever name their respective state uses), and prohibitions on market hunting.  All that took place about 100 years ago, in no small extent courtesy of Teddy Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and the early conservationists.  

In the east, wild ducks and geese were almost wiped out by market hunting for NYC, especially.  Because they cross state and national boundary lines, the feds came into the picture.

People have written books on these topics but, in short, these laws are possibly one of the most easily justified criminal laws on the books.

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I see yours as well.... (none / 0) (#17)
by kdog on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 04:00:39 PM EST
I'm very grateful for the work of the conservationists 100 years ago, especially the national parks system.  Alotta that land would be strip-mined and deforested and gone forever if not for their foresight.

I still can't wrap my head around why it's illegal for me to kill a duck or a goose and eat it though...that's gotta be a natural right, the right to eat.

It might boil down to me having more faith in mother nature than most...once she shakes us off like the bad case of fleas that we are she will heal herself from our damage.

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