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It’s Natural!
Skills To Refute A Deceitful Anti-Hunting Argument
A few weeks ago, a person asked what I planned to talk about at a forthcoming hunting seminar. “Hunting’s contribution to animal conservation,” I replied. An example to support my position was the Dallas Safari Club’s auction of a black rhino hunt in Namibia. Hunting, I explained, had led to the enrichment of many wild game species. The black rhino hunt, I said, would raise money for clean water projects, increase funding for anti-poaching enforcement and, significantly, hunt a mature non-reproducing male that had already killed five young rhinos.
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TO SAVE SCHOOL CHILDREN, COLORADO GETS F.A.S.T.E.R.-
by Michael Sabbeth
https://thewoma.org/2019/02/faster-program-response-to-school-shootings/
Writing this article evoked pain and optimism. Maybe you’ve seen the bodies. I interviewed people who have. Likely you’ve seen photos of the bodies. You’ve certainly read about them; seen media coverage of the schools, the police, the emergency treatment personnel. Doubtless you’ve seen the volcanic eruption of infinite pain that pervades every fiber of the human soul. No doubt you’ve seen the piles of teddy bears, flowers, candles and cards placed on the school grounds, gestures of anguish caused by another school shooting, and then the question raised so predictably it’s become a cliché: How can we prevent these killings?
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The Intended Unintended Consequences of “Red Flag” Laws
photo from National Review Online August 26, 2019
The cliché phrase ‘unintended consequences’ is often an exercise in deceit and or incompetent thinking. The consequences of a policy illuminate its intentions. Good intentions are morally meaningless, and can be perverse, if they do not lead to virtuous consequences. Sometimes a policy’s consequences are so obviously egregious that the claim of good intentions is manifestly fraudulent. The most rational conclusion is that the policy’s malevolent consequences were intended as the price its advocates were willing to inflict in an alleged service to a higher cause. Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs) and Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), generically known as ‘Red Flag’ laws, are such policies that luminously disclose their intent.
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I am not an expert on the rules of CITES. So, I do not know anything about what opinions, options or actions the CITES Secretariat (or the United Nations) will accept or reject when it comes to suggestions about changing the workings of CITES for the better. Indeed, I am of the opinion, that any attempt to improve CITES, using its current foundations, will be a total waste of time.
