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I'm all for your right to own an elephant, Hawk.
Go for it.
However, I think your argument that private owners make better
caretakers because they are interested in protecting their investment
might be a little weak. It resembles the arguments used by white
slaveowners during the Abolitionist debates... "We love our
slaves...after all, they're investments.. We have to take care of them or
they lose their value.."
Regards,
Wm
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Hawk wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Hawk wrote:
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > William Hugh Tunstall wrote:
> >
> > > Re: American Indian hunting practices. Native Americans were smart enough
> > > to realize that it wasn't a good idea to exhaust the resources of the
>environment.
> >
> > Hawk said: They were also stupid enough not to realize the value of personal
>ownership
> > of wealth, and the productive power of capitalism...
>
> Then I thought of something else... Let's compare the American Bison with the
>elephant.
> In Africa, elephants are owned by "the people," which everyone with any sense should
>know
> by now, means "the government." There is no private ownership of elephants. Vast
> resources are spent (read, "taxpayer money") to protect the elephant for extinction
>due to
> poachers, disease, and general mis-management of the herds. On the other hand, in
>Burma,
> Thailand, and other countries, "people" -- without "the" in front of it -- meaning
> "individuals" -- own the elephants. The elephants are used as beasts of burden in
>private
> enterprise. They are run over with elephants... elephants are thriving and
>multiplying.
> There is no danger of their becoming extinct. The reason is this: When elephants
>belong
> to individuals, and represent "wealth" to that person, he takes care of them,
>nurtures
> them, and promotes their well-being AT NO COST TO "SOCIETY." He pays all this out
>of his
> own pocket, for his own welfare and to produce his own wealth. It is the same with
>almost
> any "natural resource." When the govm't owns it, there is a burden on the taxpayer,
>and
> the resource is almost certain to be mis-managed, costly, and in danger of depletion.
> When individuals own resources, they foot the bill for preservation and management
>of the
> resource. While an individual may needlessly and foolishly exploit or squander his
>little
> portion of the resource, it is unlikely that all owners of similar resources would
>be so
> foolish.
>
> Hawk
>
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