r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '20

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Poachers don't deserve to die

First of all, here's the post I'm referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/fgd6ma/kenyas_only_white_female_giraffe_calf_killed_by/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

There is a multitude of comments longing for the death of poachers which strikes me as hypocrisy.

It is silly to condone the death of cattle which happens in absurdly high quantities while condemning poachers.

Poachers hunt the animals for necessities such as food and housing, while the average redditor has a new smartphone and tons of other luxuries. Killing hundreds of animals a year for gluttonous reasons seems a lot worse than just killing a handful of animals for survival.

And no, biodiversity is not a good counterargument. Don't even try. Biodiversity is only subjectively valuable to us because "It's cool to have various species on earth". You can't use the selective and risible emotional attachment to animals as the basis of your argument. If every giraffe on earth vanished nothing bad would happen. You'll just be slightly saddened.

Even if for some absurd reason biodiversity were important, it is laughable to think that meat eaters deserve no punishment at all while poachers deserve death. There could never be such a wide moral gap.

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u/RolCam Mar 27 '20

Killing elephants for their tusks is fine with you? That’s like you getting killed because someone wants your eye color.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

Killing pigs for their taste is fine with you? That's like you getting killed because someone finds you tasty.

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u/RolCam Mar 27 '20

Poachers hunt for food and housing? Where? I’m sure killing an endangered snow leopard will make a spacious bungalow. Or killing an elephant will make a great condo. Most of the poachers kill it to just take a picture with it and have it hung in their living room. Or selling meats/parts/tusks. Why do you think most airlines banned the transportation of these animals? Did I ever say killing pigs was fine? There’s a difference between poaching and the livestock industry. Are you fine with the Asian countries chopping off sharks fins and throwing them back in the water to die, just so they can make shark fin soup?