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Trophy Hunter Shot Dead in South Africa
- Thread starter bishopp135
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Happens every now and again. Usually it's a bear or a deer taking the win from them instead, though.
That makes some sense but doesn't really explain the giraffes though. Plus, like, if they're rich enough to afford to hunt big game they could also afford to just donate to the reserve instead.
This isn't the case of some illegal poachers or hunters, that's a legit bussiness that he pays a lot of taxes to the state for the licence, blame the governement for allowing it not the people that do it. Its a shitty practice but its legal and allowed, being murdered in the middle of the road while your car is broken just for a riffle is the fucked up thing.
Could be for population control, I really don't know. They could donate and I imagine some do. Again this is a situation where animals occasionally need to be put down to protect the preserve, so might as well let a rich guy pay us $500,000 to let him do it for us.
He could have just used that money to donate to help preserve the place instead of feeling superior by hunting animals for fun using his money as some skeleton key to do whatever he wants.
lol no, I can perfectly well blame both. Asshole deserves no sympathy.
I really don't care about how much money he pays or how legal it is
This is correct. Trophy hunters are different from poachers. Trophy hunters pay a lot of money so they can shoot sick and dying animals. Then the money can be used to help the healthy members of the species. Poachers on the other hand hunt any animal illegally. You don't have to like it. But the money that is brought in is beneficial to conservation.
If he cared he would donate the money without shooting animals
If he's willing to trophy hunt I don't care about what happens to him
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He doesn't have to care about conservation, as long as the money he paid goes towards it. He could just want to shoot the animals. At least this way it is done legally and to animals that already need to be put down.
The fact he was near a national park might be it. People just fed up with his shit, or thinking they were preventing poaching.
People are more important than animals.
This man's death is being celebrated by people because he killed animals.
That is absurd, what about his family and friends? Do they deserve to deal with a murdered loved one because he hunted animals?
Sure, it's shitty to kill these animals for sport but stopping him by killing him is fucking disgusting.
This man's death is being celebrated by people because he killed animals.
That is absurd, what about his family and friends? Do they deserve to deal with a murdered loved one because he hunted animals?
Sure, it's shitty to kill these animals for sport but stopping him by killing him is fucking disgusting.
All of it is messed up, and I don't wish death on anybody, but I'd say arguably the person who chooses to pay money to kill exotic and/or endangered animals is probably the worst.
I'm not personally celebrating his murder by any means, but it's not like he was killing deer or something.
i genuinely cannot bring myself to care about some dipshit trophy hunter getting killed
this ain't someone hunting for food getting killed here
I don't care anymore than I normally care about any other murder victim.
I'm just not celebrating the death of a human because they do something I find appalling.
He has money to fly to Africa and kill stuff. He definitely is no angel
That doesn't mean he deserved to die and have people celebrate because he was murdered.
Here's an interesting article on the nuance within South Africa conservation of animals (specifically here it is on elephants which are a bit of a problem...or are they?)
africageographic.com
Do we have an elephant problem? - Africa Geographic
The 'elephant problem' - ecologists, landowners and tourists are grappling with the elephant problem. But what does this mean?
africageographic.com
This entire threads point is to share this mans death for some reason other than Oh its just news.
If this forum reported every death in the news there would be nothing else on this forum but posts about needless murder.
Pretending that this was posted here for anything other than "Boy howdy, this sure is interesting" is a joke.
Legality has nothing to do with a moral or ethical good.
He could have just as well used his money to donate to conservation efforts and left it at that.
The guy not only spent his wealth and time just to kill animals and sell their bodies, he also organized the chance for countless others to kill animals, to get even more money out of it with "paid hunting trips". As someone who cares a lot for animals, excuse me that I honestly don't give a shit about this guy. He literally killed endangered species for years, for fun and money. Fuck him, fuck his hunting partys, and yes, I am indeed happy there's one less of these people around.
Cool. But hey, if you're happy that a man's family has to deal with his death then that's on you.