Quote Originally Posted by gsarchie View Post
If you are just looking to help out, and not police, ......
My remarks are with regard to people who take it upon themselves to ignore safegaurds which exist for the protection and continued existence of the species, and covet wild animals for themselves when there are plenty of captive bred Red Rat (corn) snakes available for purchase. Without these safeguards, greed would win and the people who could, would exploit the animals for the pet trade to the point of extinction. I'm sure there are ornithology enthusiasts who would love to see a passenger pigeon land in thier yard. But sadly, they can only go to the smithsonian and see one of the two that had been mounted about 90 years ago. They used to swarm in flocks that would cover the skies from horizon to horizon.

As for an example of a snake, one only needs to look at the Eastern Indigo snake. The numbers are stabilizing, but still only in a smaller range. They dwindled to the point of endangered, largely because they are a large, non venimous, attractive snake that people caught to sell. They don't procreate at a rate that could recover against the numbers that were being removed from the wild by profiteers, until legislation corrected the situation.

I don't make the laws but they exist for a purpose. If we ignore them arbitrarily, then we have anarchy. Perhaps you may consider that if you have a problem with that, rather then attacking others comments, you should be constructively proactive and try to change legislation that you feel is unwarranted.

Where's the line you've drawn?

If someone where to hurt a family member of yours, and a friend of theirs thinks they were in the right, how would you feel about them assiting the person in question, to hideout from authorities. Hey they are just being a friend, not policing, right?