[Workers United]

Originally Posted by MicroBrew

Sooo imagine there wasn't enviro regulations protecting the spotted owl, assume that logging interests in the Pacific NorthWest led to the extermination of the spotted owl? Do we execute the loggers, their company heads, the politicians who aided them in defeating anti logging initiatives etc...

If Abu Ghraib is any model, they'll execute the lowest ranked logger and give the company heads and supervisors the camera time to say that this was just a bad group. If they find a memo to the contrary, they'll just slap the supervisor on the wrist.

[350 lbs fist]

Well, since this also happens naturally and all the time it will be hard to differentiate.

And do you get executed for insect extinctions? And how do you prove that you just did that?

But I agree that wilfully exterminating a species should be punishable. Maybe not by death.

And the blame shouldn't fall on the last poacher who shot the last individ. The blame should be put on those who are responsible for the majority of deaths of the species. Governments, corporations, powerful individuals etc. And these are generally hard to tackle legally.

[Kogan]

Originally Posted by Death March

Hard to argue with that logic.

LOL