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That was poaching

In Reply to: Benevolence won't matter in the end posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on December 06, 1999 at 13:15:36:

: SDF: The laws of population biology didn't care, that no particular hunter wanted to extinguish the passenger pigeon. The fact of the matter was, and is, that the predatory hunting of human beings working separately combined to drive the passenger pigeon into extinction together, just as humanity almost wiped out the whales the same way, just as the rhinoceros will become an animal found only zoos in a few years, just as the mountain gorillas of Rwanda (& most other apes) are doomed to near-extinction the same way. And do keep in mind the difficulty of regenerating a species from the tiny numbers to be warehoused in zoos.

Yes hunters did drive the passenger pigeon into extinction i admit that. However, that was a long time ago, now we have laws to make sure hunters don't kill all the animals in one species. As for rhinos and mountain gorillas that isn't hunting that is poaching. Which is illeagal already because there aren't enough rhinos. But people still want their horns so they kill them illegaly. Should we ban all hunting because a few people are poaching? I am not doing anything illegal and as long as I and everyone else stick to the laws the extinction of another animal will never occur because of hunting.

: I'm sure if you found all the rhino hunters in a few years, they would all say "It wasn't me that extinguished the rhino," but if you add them all up, they did it.

Like I said there aren't rhino hunters only rhino poachers.

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