[quote]ORIGINAL: Sylvan
So if I understand you correctly, in that the offense doesn't matter, you'd be o.k. with the same pushishment for all game violations. Really? Don't you think the jack lighterin my previous post should receive a more severe punishment than the guy who puts his wife's tag on a deer? I think the only intelligent way of doing things is to have the punishmentproportional to the severity of the crime.
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Now where did you get the idea that I didn't think the punishment should fit the crime? I agree that someone who poaches ten deer should get a more severe punishment than someone who poaches one. We simply disagree on whether it is "serious" or not when someone breaks the law one way as opposed to another.
I guess you didn't understand my post or you are just trying flame this. If you read it again you will see that I said that "encouraging hunters to turn other hunters in" can get out of hand. I didn't say that we should never do it. Certainly if we see a serious violation taking place any responsbible individualwould inform a WCO but I don't thinkit would be a good thing or even rational tobe running around reporting every minor infraction we see any more than we should be calling the state police every time we see someone going 70 in a65.
Point well taken. As I stated above, we disagree on what is a serious violation. I believe any illegal taking of a deer or turkey, or any game animal for that matter is a serious matter. You seem to see degrees of seriousness.