Ricky Gervais warns PM Starmer to get a move on over sick ‘hunting trophies’ ban

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1. I agree with the point he is making but then again Ricky you did say this about celebrities;
   “So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. “

2. Hunting trophies offend his sensibilities, but dehumanising disabled people is ok.

3. Doesn’t Ricky say celebrities should keep their voices out of politics?

4. Breaking : the worst person you know makes a good point

5. There’s not enough energy going into stopping fox hunting, let alone trophy twonks.

6. I strongly oppose the suggestion.

   The reality is that culling animals is a neccesary and required part of conservation in Africa. You have old bull elephants going senile and preventing other males from mating, despite not being able to mate themselves. You have lions [getting too numerous and needing to be culled](https://www.conservationfrontlines.org/2018/09/culling-to-conserve-a-hard-truth-for-lion-conservation-2/). There are countless examples of where animals need to be shot because they’re hindering wider conservation efforts.

   So there are 3 choices:

   1) Kill no animals and let everything go to shit. In the above lion example, let them over hunt prey species until there are no more prey species and all the lions starve, creating a complete trophic collapse, that we could likely never restore.

   2) Pay for a professional hunter to shoot them at great expense to the park.

   3) Allow some rich psycho to shoot them and get paid a shit load of money which can fund further conservation efforts, in exchange for letting him take a couple of kilos of the carcass home.

   There is obviously nuance to the whole issue, but this is what the choice boils down to.

   If you want more information, I highly recommend the book, [Trophy Hunting by Dr. Nikolaj Bichel and Prof. Adam Hart](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trophy-Hunting-Nikolaj-Bichel/dp/9811999759). The amount of work they did to assimilate the issue across multiple disciplines is truly astonishing and it is the most comprehensive work on the topic.

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