Property rights do not magically enforce themselves, you need a government to enforce it for you.
Again, not necessarily. A private security force works fine -- especially in places where the government isn't... particularly effective. Such governments aren't all that good at coordination, either, by the way.
But the argument boiled down to its core is just incentives. It's much better to have incentives for private people to have herds of elephants roam on their ranches than depend on government bureaucrats who, frankly, don't care that much.
An international ban on ivory trading by itself wont' save the elephants -- the locals will just hunt them down for meat and because they destroy crops.
I think you just chose a bad example. Your underlying point that special-interest groups have tunnel vision and are constitutionally incapable of deviating from their charter is certainly valid.
I don't understand what this is about anymore (I think you just like to argue?)
(a) There aren't "private security forces" replacing governments making Africa a kind of modern day Snowcrash universe. Governments are mostly weak and corrupt, and there are warlords running around killing folks and each other, and taking their loot.
(b) The way the NRA makes its decisions has nothing to do with the political situation in Africa, the state of elephant herds in Africa, the long term fate of the African elephant species, or anything like that. They con...
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