Tibetan antelope in Japan and Thailand

Marquise 2022-01-28 08:18:22

I have seen white-faced raccoons at the dinner table. But before that meal, I had never heard of a white-faced raccoon and I had never seen a live white-faced raccoon. But I have a sympathy for this guy I've never met at the dinner table -- an emotion I've never shown with drumsticks. It was after that meal that I learned that the white-faced raccoon is a protected animal.

I also listened to a discussion at the dinner table, a person who claims to "do not eat spiritual animals", and another game eater discussing whether pigs "are spiritual animals". There is no way to define "spirituality", and naturally no one can convince the other. What reasons should we use to protect species other than us? Why do humans always endow all valuable animals with unpredictable fates?

Tibetan antelopes do not have high food value, but their economic value is like a curse, so they are constantly being poisoned to the point of being endangered. It's likely that fur buyers don't even know what these animals look like.


Naturalist economics explains why whales are on the verge of extinction and chickens have no worries about reproduction: the reason is that people can have reliable ownership of chickens, so they continue to help them reproduce, but whales don't belong to anyone, so they can't avoid being caught by the Japanese. and the fate of the Norwegian hunt. (See "Milk Cola Economics")

Mountain patrol leader Ri Tai said that the poachers killed "my Tibetan antelope". Ownership is the most irrefutable reason for us to protect any species. It was his struggle for ownership that made the country realize the loss of ownership, and ultimately allowed the species to be protected to a greater extent.

If ownership of all species in this world were distributed, perhaps none of them would go extinct.

As Smith said in "The Matrix", human beings are indeed like viruses: greedily nibbling away resources and madly destroying species. We even kill each other to plunder resources or species.

At the same time, humans are like antibodies: we will sacrifice everything to protect our resources and species.

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Mountain Patrol quotes

  • Ga Yu: I'm a reporter from Beijing.

    Ri Tai: I don't have the time.

    Ga Yu: Wait a second. You want this place to be declared as a nature reserve. Maybe I can help.