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Originally Posted by FanIn80
It's not the Government's place to tell its citizens what they can or can not eat. Government should keep the lights on, provide safety and protection, make sure the bills are paid, and make sure our international interests attended to.
Let me worry about how I want to live my life, and whether or not I want to stuff a shark fin in my gullet.
That's what a Conservative government is all about. Do we really need our government to tell us it's wrong to eat shark fins? I'm a smart guy. My morals are pretty decent. I have the ability to decide this kind of stuff for myself. The less things we allow to be governed on our behalf, the freer we are. That's the difference between a Conservative and Liberal government. Liberals want to govern everything, while Conservatives just want to govern the things that need to be governed on our behalf, and let us govern everything else for ourselves.
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If countries don't ban the importation of shark fins. There will be no sharks in a very short period of time. The less sharks there are, the more expensive the fins get, the more 'status' it represents to a bunch of ignoramuses, the more in demand they become. It will be an ecological disaster of unprecedented scale. It is argued some species are now past the point of recovery. Because of Chinese shark fin demand.
If countries do not make this practice a crime. China will destroy an entire
group of species. And then some. There is simply zero of concept conservation of species protection in China. They do not care. All that matters is looking cool, eating a garbage bowl of soup to impress people. If worldwide goverments doesn't make it a serious crime, and soon, the Oceans are doomed. And the consequences will be irreversible. This is not hyperbolic by any stretch, it is that huge of a deal. Remove the Apex predators from the Ocean, and nobody can even begin to estimate how massive of a catastrophe this will be.
If an entire culture of people cannot control their selfish urges and do what is right for not only mankind, but more importantly and entire group of species, then you have to make them control it, by making them criminals.