also i think some context is important to this overall discussion since feral cats, for example, contribute a much greater ecological threat to FL’s ecosystem than snakes since unlike snakes cats will kill things for amusement as well as defense and food (in addition to breeding more prolifically than snakes) - Australia is a textbook example of what they can do and yet we do not see this sort of extreme totalitarian measures to deal with this problem as we do with Reptiles in general and snakes in particular and i think we should, absolutely, be critical about giving credibility to the FWC where it isn’t warranted otherwise we are liable to slip into a sort of self-defeating formalism that leads to stolen civil rights and the extremely tragic loss of life that we are so seeing
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