Animals are more valuable than people! Tiger life worth more than human life!
This is an enviro-whacko’s wet dream. Other intellectual perverts, all drooling out of control in ubison, over the Indian decision are animal rights whacko’s, Liberals, Progs, Cat Ladies and Obamoids.
Not quite. Think of it this way, certain animals are worth more alive than the people who would kill them. Would a person be justified in killing a person who was attempting to kill a champion racehorse or prized breeding bull? If you walked into your paddock or barn and saw a man with a gun to the head of either of those animals, would you be justified in killing him? You may argue that you would, given the concept of personal property and your right to protect it. But does the state have the right and responsibility to protect the people’s resources by what ever means necessary? And when those resources are as limited as tigers, shouldn’t the action to protect them be vigorous?
Money is more valuable than people! Cash retention worth more than human life!
I wonder what the response would be if I posted something like that on a thread discussing a homeowner shooting a thief sneaking into his garage to steal his car, or a bank guard shooting a perp who snatched money. After all, is money 'worth a human life?'
These tigers are THE key hard currency resource for these areas, and in some places the only hard currency resource. Every tiger killed is an economic blow to the people, and one that cannot be afforded. In India, the lions of Gir forest (the home of the Asiatic lion and the only place one can find them outside Africa) they had to take similar steps to save the population - and the tourism that stems from it.
As for your later comments on how tigers should be killed since they 'eat people' (amazing logic!) I wonder if the same applies to deer (145 Americans per year) or dogs (which kill more humans than all big cats from all continents combined)?
Anyways - these 'liberal' measures are supported by the local communities who clearly understand that tourists will not spend their hard earned dollars and Euros to look at trees - but will do so to see tigers.
“Animals are more valuable than people! Tiger life worth more than human life!”
That’s a no-brainer. Absa-freakin-lutely!!