Re:Elephants without tusks are a response to the selective p...
by mamon on Monday October 10, 2016 @11:48AM
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>> You are implying that in your plan there would be no elephants in the wild right?
No, I think the idea is that once we have elephant breeded on ranches then the ivory becomes cheap and easily available thus making poaching business not profitable anymore, making wild elephants safe.
Of course the problem with that approach is that raising an elephant is not cheap, so ivory from domesticated elephants won't be that much cheaper. Unless you can make enough money on elephant's meat, which is also unlikely, since, as someone in this thread noticed, growing nice pair of tusks takes 50 years, and meat of old animals tend to taste much worse than that from younger ones.
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Re:Elephants without tusks are a response to the selective p...
by fucking_tragedy on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:16AM
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Let the market solve it: patently not libertarianism.
How much does it cost to grow a tree? It costs quite a bit to raise an elephant.
> So the elephant rancher shoots the poacher. That's what we used to do when cattle rustling was a thing, and it worked pretty well.
You are implying that in your plan there would be no elephants in the wild right? Also can you tell me a bit about your knowledge of animal and in particular elephant husbandry?
> Frankly, I don't care. Pigs are pretty damned intelligent too, but bacon tastes wonderful. Neither pigs nor elephants are men, and I'm find with killing them.
Well not everyone is a psychopath so there's that.
> It was easier when Africa was better-run, but it can be done again.
I like your detailed plan. Also what African countries in particular are you talking about?
> We're talking about exterminating mosquitoes, for Pete's sake!
Idk how that's related? Do you have some device that turns poachers into mosquitoes? Do you?
> If you want an animal to survive, figure out a way for it to be in someone powerful's interest. The rest will follow as day follows the night.
Fuck yeah, fuck ethics, fuck empathy for intelligent beings, fuck ecosystems, libertarianism fuck yeah! On some level I envy you that you have one belief system you think works for everything.