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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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