Comment by andrepd

This to me is a sign of a kind of twisted morality and twisted priorities that urban, well-off people have in regards to animal rights. In a nutshell, it is the humanisation of the animals and the dehumanisation of humans. I can't help but to feel profoundly annoyed and even horrified when I hear people proudly proclaiming how people that people who hunt rhinos ought to be shot on sight, waged war on, why even tortured and summarily executed. Meanwhile people starve in miserable conditions, conditions which in many cases serve to push them into risky jobs such as this. They don't really care that that person is desperate with little other way to feed his family, and that poaching groups pay him 2 years wages to kill an animal and bring the ivory to them, they are happy to decree capital punishment for that from their comfy chairs. But boy they do care about some misplaced sense of "wildlife protection" with regards to appealing species like pandas or African megafauna.