There seems to me, more often than not, that poachers have a criminal mindset and a blatant disregard for laws and society's standards. Reasoning with them won't work. Their brains don't work that way.
It's really hard when that psycho is a family member. You don't want them to go to jail or have the family become the center of neighborhood gossip. So you put up with their sorry butts out of "love" and family loyalties. Dysfunctional family dynamics at it's finest.[&:]
Case in point was an uncle I had. Look up "sociopath" in the dictionary and there's probably a mugshot of him. Extremely manipulative to all those around him. Very nice as long as he got his way. If he didn't, watch out.
Apparently, game laws did not apply to him. Trespassing, out of season, road hunting, didn't matter. Nobody reported him because we we're all scared of him and the possibility of him retaliating in some way.
Luckily, my aunt had the courage to divorce that POS and he fled to Kentucky, never to be heard from again.[:@]
Like most who have responded on this thread, I think the answer is "depends on the situation". Is this an isolated incident where theindividual gave over to temptation and truly feels remorse? Or is that person like my estranged uncle who could care less about anything other than himself?