Justice is served...

[Dylan]

We all have our off days, and he seems genuinely upset this time so maybe that's coloring his judgment. Let's cut him some slack.

[jimmyz]

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[Dylan]

[John Galt]

elephants are intelligent, this is true. for example, they have two distinct calls for danger: one for bees, and one for humans. but they can't reason. they can mimic, and they can use tools (which is the result of accident and mimicry), but they cannot reason the solution to problems out on their own, at least, i've never heard of such a thing. still, neither can retarded people.

farmers in the area live with elephants by ringing their crops with beehives. other more sophisticated devices can also be used. if they start doing crazy things like trampling a person to death that wasn't even hunting him and then have exploited dance happily on that man's grave for unknown reasons, then yeah, they should be culled. if the population is going out of control, or if bulls are acting in their own interests which endanger a population of them as a whole, then yeah, lets be caretakers.sustenance hunters, sure, although frankly im pretty sure they normally hunt smaller game. but okay, that's fine by me.

but the rest of us? if i was a citizen of those countries i would support not allowing them to be hunted for sport. but i ain't so i really don't care. but i will say this: no elephants in america should be hunted for sport

[Dylan]

[exploited]

Interesting how some people here are so outraged by the death of a murderer.

Unsurprisingly, all or most of them support the death penalty.

[Tejada]

I'm not following how you get from "intelligence close to that of a toddler" to killing that animal is murder. So, it's remarkably smart by animal standards... but it's still an animal so it can't be "murdered" nor can you become as Ex. states a "serial murderer" by killing a great deal of them as a profession.

There are myriad animals that are sentient. Are you using sentient in a more specific way than I'm thinking as definitionally sentient is: characterized by sensation and consciousness. So dogs, cats, etc. all qualify you as a murderer if you kill one?

Personally I thinks it's disgusting to put any of the large African game down for sport but when you started applying "murderer" to hunters that do you lost me.

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[John Galt]