http://news.yahoo.com/indian-state-oks-shooting-tiger-poachers-sight-124532261.html
No ethical argument's gonna work here.
Why not?
Edit: also, given this, the poachers have nothing to lose by in turn shooting the "poacher-poachers" on sight.
The keyboard is mightier than the gun.
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When you accept that an animal life is more important than a human life, no human-based ethics works.
Well, I would say that not all human lives are necessarily more important than animal lives. Privatize the conservations, and I bet most of the poaching would go away. It's always possible that even if it were privatized, that the situation could get so bad that shooting poachers is the only way to resolve it, but I doubt that it would have reached that point.
Ethical arguments don't work anywhere.
The left is going to always win this, because they are the ones who are fashionable and create the ethos (customs) that we have to play by, plain and simple. We just have to live with that fact. If they can do such a thing, they are "correct". If there is a demand for the product of "left wing values", so be it.. It's no different than a demand for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, freedom, or anything else anyone wants to sell - the consequences and imperatives to act are still the same.
I suppose if you want to try to irk a lefty you can ask them or show them at what point they become a conservative, or at what point they don't care to "progress" - in this case it could be the point of conserving some type of human:tiger ratio. In this case their values are just as silly as any other "conservative values" and you can laugh in their face.
The only problem with this tactic is they can call you "reactionary", "petit bourgoise", or whatever and they would be right to do so (in a sense) if what they are saying is socially fashionable. In which case you are only left with one more way to try to irk the little buggers; which is saying all a conservative does is try to affirm and keep in power what is socially fashionable.
Either way, ditch ethics
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vive la insurrection: Ethical arguments don't work anywhere. The left is going to always win this, because they are the ones who are fashionable and create the ethos (customs) that we have to play by, plain and simple. We just have to live with that fact. If they can do such a thing, they are "correct". If there is a demand for the product of "left wing values", so be it.. It's no different than a demand for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, freedom, or anything else anyone wants to sell - the consequences and imperatives to act are still the same. I suppose if you want to try to irk a lefty you can ask them or show them at what point they become a conservative, or at what point they don't care to "progress" - in this case it could be the point of conserving some type of human:tiger ratio. In this case their values are just as silly as any other "conservative values" and you can laugh in their face. The only problem with this tactic is they can call you "reactionary", "petit bourgoise", or whatever and they would be right to do so (in a sense) if what they are saying is socially fashionable. In which case you are only left with one more way to try to irk the little buggers; which is saying all a conservative does is try to affirm and keep in power what is socially fashionable. Either way, ditch ethics
Vive, you're one of few people who make complete sense on these forums. Keep up the good work.
vive la insurrection:Ethical arguments don't work anywhere.
Sure they do.
vive la insurrection:Either way, ditch ethics
No.
To abandon ethics to the left is literally to concede the battle.
Personally I take my cue from Rand's objectivist ethics, as an ethics derived entirely from reason and reality. Such an ethic without any religious connotations could be successfully applied in a pluralistic society, and successfully argued due to its rational basis.
Objectivists of the world unite.
Anenome: To abandon ethics to the left is literally to concede the battle. Personally I take my cue from Rand's objectivist ethics, as an ethics derived entirely from reason and reality. Such an ethic without any religious connotations could be successfully applied in a pluralistic society, and successfully argued due to its rational basis.
I'm liking Objectivism more and more these days. It's as practical as you get. A nice refresher from the ins and outs of idealist ethics, metaphysics and epistemology.
Wheylous: Objectivists of the world unite.
Damn straight ;)