I HATE this movie...


Consider that the "poachers" are poor, uneducated and live in a Third World country. Consider that they have been hunting these animals for generations and only in the last half of 20th century these hunters were told that they weren't allowed to do so anymore. What else is a poor man to do? If anyone should be prosecuted in the illegal ivory trade it should be the middle man seller and the buyer. The poacher is only trying to feed his familiy.

The scene where Paolo grabs a poacher by the throat and kicks dirt at the captured poachers totally infuriated me.

This movie is a total twist of the facts and not just a dramatization thereof.

I know one fact left out is that Kuki Gallman was sued by a group of Masai who alleged that Kuki had them removed from their land during a drought.

bushtony and his mother suffer from Congential Stupidty and they didn't see it coming.

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How can you equate a poacher to those three "professions". Tell me who the victim of a poacher is? You are equating an elephant/rhino to a human? It's your argument that is flawed. To equate poachers to those individuals is a pathetic attempt to dehumanized poachers. Your argument is completely laughable.

bushtony and his mother suffer from Congential Stupidtiy and they didn't see it coming.

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Honor doesn't feed a family. You are completely ignorant of the real world and are an idealistic dreamer. Get off of your high horse. There a plenty of "professions" that are sh!tty but it's the only living these people can make. Have you even been to a third world country? When you see the real thing it's alot different from (*edit* the movies).

I could care less if the elephant is hunted to extinction. If it saves the lives of the poachers and their families, I am for it.

Penn and Teller said that they would kill every last chimpanzee on earth with their bare hands to save one AIDS patient. I totally agree with them.

By the time elephants are extinct I hope that global poverty has been eradicated-this is a more worthy cause.

bushtony and his mother suffer from Congential Stupidtiy and they didn't see it coming.

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My god yo are soooo wrong on so many levels its scary.

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Frankly, I think all of you are a bit stupid to be arguing. I mean, some of you are like, "Who cares if the animals go extinct, we need to look out for the humans!" While others of you are like, "Stupid humans, don't you realize there's no honor in these professions?"

Okay, look:

First of all, conservancy IS important, okay? We can't just kill off various animals and plants, because, frankly, that's killing ourselves off in the long run, and don't tell me that WE shouldn't have to worry about it, because I'm sure our unborn future grandchildren will already hate us all for screwing up the world this much. Conservancy IS important.

However, humans are important too!

And you can't say, "Honor this and honor that," because, look: Not everyone in the world is as privileged as we are in America. In fact, most people in the world are NOT as privileged as we are in America. Okay? Yes, poaching is bad, and it helps drive animals to extinction, which, as I've said, is also bad. But rather than harping on about honor and condemning third world people because they're surviving the only way they know how, we should give them options! We should help them, someone should patent genetically modified crops and give them to poor farmers for FREE (what good is it to make a crop that will grow in a third-world country if no one there can afford it because they have to pay for new seeds every year?), we need to educate them about the importance of conservancy and then use conservancy programs to create jobs for them! If they don't have options, what do you expect them to do?

Just realize that conservancy is important AND humans are important, that all of us are in this together, for better or worse, and that even the worst situations in America are better than the situations of, say, many of the Maasai people in Africa.

There, see? I didn't even have to swear, spell badly, or get offensive to make my point, and I simultaneously agreed and disagreed with everyone because I bother trying to see from both viewpoints and I don't take *beep* personally. (There, I swore once.)

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