Just recently CNN Reported on the Illegal Ivory Trade to illustrate that this “problem” is driven by the increasing demand of people rather well off. . .not just the rich, not just the “upper class” . . .predominantly in Asia, where the governments claim to be combating the practice. . . That this is noting but lip service is born out by the fact that the ivory carving business, and stores in fancy shopping centres selling these products, are not in any major way prevented from continuing this illegal ivory trade. It is a “demand driven” business and that demand is the demand created by people. . . The poachers and the middlemen traders fill the gaping holes on the demand side. . .Who is the greatest culprit? Who is the victim? This question does not stand apart from what some people that pretend to have a solutions for the “problem” suggest should be done to the traders: “They should be shot in the head” or other such brutal punishment should be given to these traders, reflecting a mentality that is no less insidious as mass murder is in regards to eradication people that are judged to be “undesirable” by people in power positions, be they vicious criminals or diabolical government officials. On the search for illegal ivory trade the 2.960.000 hits were scored, which indicates how wide spread the problem is. . . .and we are only talking about killing 10.000 elephants so far and not yet about the “brutal killing” of millions of animals to get meat on the tables of people. Millions of links can be found on that topic too. . .No doubt, of course. . .most of these links are placed there by people that are against these brutal killings and mistreatments but the cruelties are laid bare. . .and the demand for the products causing the killings comes from people. I add to this subject like slave labour, child prostitution, trafficking of women, plus many other despicable things people do because people create a demand for it. The question arises: What is the real source of all these despicable practices for which many people are not ashamed to say: “The culprits should be shot” or “The perpetrators should be treated the same way as the victims are treated”. Is that presumed “cure” not as bad, or even worse, as the “problem”? Retribution by way of institutionalised killing. . .the death penalty for example. . . is in itself a barbarity that that pulls a society down to the level of the perpetrators. . .To become “evil” in order to combat “evil” is a dead end philosophy. A better solution might be to consider the people that create the demand that causes world-wide killing and abuse of animals and people, and the people that do the killing and commit the abuse, as victims of a decease! Are we to kill people that have cancer? Are we to kill people that bare insane? ******************************* Here is one link, on the illegal ivory trade issue, reported on by CNN a few days ago: edition.cnn/2012/09/05/world/africa/africa-ivory-elephant-slaughter Who is the culprit? Who is the victim?
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:28:12 +0000