@ Amberae: Try to steal one of those Lobsters and see what happens to you.

In terms of "protecting" what I meant was that they protect them until sold. This also implies that they can also charge admission to see or hunt the animals like they do at privately owned safari parks in Africa where you can pay to hunt big game. This protects the animals from poachers and ensures that they reproduce and their numbers increase.

When you allow people to profit from animals, the people will breed, medicate, vacinate, and protect the animals from extinction. It is in the African tribe's best interest to keep poachers away from their rhinos, because hunters will pay them money to hunt them, or they can harvest their horns for BS Chineese medicine use or whatever. Because that African tribe makes money off of the sell of those animals, they want to keep the supply of those animals up so that they can continue to sell even more for tourism, meat, skin, and other items that those animals produce where there is a market value for. That is why we should support legalizing the ownership and sell of endangered species for such purposes. Private markets will ensure that those animals are protected from extinction. I bet bald eagle tastes great, and their feathers look good too. Why not privatize that bird and see flocks of them farmed? Can you imagine one day that bird no longer being endangered, but being too populous?

This is actually a great idea by the zoo. By eating farm raised animals, you create an economic situation that causes the animals to come back from being endangered.

Think about it, every animal that we eat, wear its fur, or own as a pet is nowhere near extinction. Why is this? It is simply because people have an incentive to protect them.

If they know that they can profit from the sell of these animals, they will protect them, medicate them and breed them. When there is no economic benefit of raising these animals, they go extict.

The American Bison was like this until it was encouraged for ranchers to own them and sell their meat, fur, and skin. Today we no longer worry about Bison extiction although it once was reality. Think about it this way... Is there a shortage of dogs, cats, cows, or chickens? Why isn't there? Because people are alowed to own those animals.

Would you want to ban an object that has killed on average arround 41,000 young and old every year in the US since 1990?
Well if you do, I can immagine that the large numbers are the reason. Well what about a product that has killed on average 28,000 a year in the US?
If you had the choice which one would you like to ban first?

If you said the object that has killed 41,000 a year, then congradulations. You have just banned the automobile (your car and all road vehicles)
If you said the object that killed less, that was the gun. Which by the way, is responsible for more suicides than murders.

Truth is death is inevitable, we fear it a little too much. In some cases we invest a larger ammount of fear to other types of death. For some reason genetal mutilation prior to being set on fire is feared more than just getting shot. You can see this fear everytime a new disease is reported as a possible pandemic. People fear bird flu more than they do the regular flu. Guess which one kills more people every year? The regular flu. It is only natural to fear death, what is beyond reason is our poor rationality when it comes to creating laws that try to prevent death. If we were consistant, everything that has a potential to kill us would be outlawed. Let's start with all cars before we move on to guns.

Homeschooled kids do far better than those who were taught in government schools. This law comes from a state where the government wants to mandate almost everyaspect of your personal life.

Mandating Equality has never solved any so called "problems". Now we have reverse sexism.

No one beats the Kuwaiti Dinar LOL.

I can't believe he wasn't given the death penalty. He should have either been killed by nature (life in prison) or by man (lethal injection). no murderer should ever be given his freedom. Especially after only 5 years. Sheesh!

polygammy should be legal, it is the welfare state that is the problem.

Oh God youze guyz made funz of Ron Paul! Oh no!

Penn and Teller have talked about how numbers can easily be skewed here are some examples:

Housing: Irrelevent you already pay for it.
Transportation: Irrelevent a couple of extra gallons of gas are all you have to pay for.

Education: Irrelevant you pay for this through tax dollars.

Childcare: Irrelevent this is a choice.

Health: Irrelevant some parents actually avoid immunizations and modern medicine (don't ask me why)

Miscellanious: Toys are optional, you could always buy them from goodwill.

The only things that do matter here are: Clothing, which you can also buy from goodwill.

The total cost per year was only: $13,844
Take out the optional and it was: $1127 per year

We have it real good in America. Immagine living in a non developed country with children. We as Americans are spoiled and still find time to complain.

I'll have to agree on Penn & Teller on this one. Watch out, these people might make this compulsory. Scary.

Agree with Jonathan. Fighting for the rights of yours and others from a tyrant for more personal and economic freedom is right and acceptable. More personal freedom means the right to be stupid enough to think that tyranny works, god can tell you to kill people, and that burning the American Flag is cool. With freedom, we can know who the idiots are. Without it those thoughts would be crimes, and without freedom, what would the United States be? How hard it is to defend the actions of idiots, I say let them be that way they can be ignorant of thier own irony.

Wow there are some stupid people in the Vegan comunity, but no one is disputing that.

No laws against meat or fur.

Let's not overlook Article 29(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

Why celebrate the United Nations Universal Declaration, that fails to ensure freedom? When we could just look at the United States Constitution which has no clause that allows the government to violate it? To me the Bill of Rights is more precious than anything that the United Nations could ever do for me.

Ever notice that Politicians like John Edwards who go out and do "poverty" tours are the richest people in our nation? In a free trade market you are rewarded for your effort. Poverty in the US is nothing like that of the developing world or of Africa. If you are poor in the US it is because you are either stupid, lazy, medically unable to make your own money, and possibly all of the above. India has a growing gap between rich and poor. Is that a bad thing? No! It simply means that thier economy is growing. Unlike Feudalism, in capitalism when the rich get richer everyone benefits.