11-15-2013, 10:33 PM
[quote PBH]
Look -- this isn't a biological issue. This is a moral and ethical and social issue. It should be dealt with through EDUCATION. Not regulation. The WB got it right.[/quote]
Maybe, maybe not. If the bulk of these violations were due to ignorance of the regulations, then what you say is spot on. If however, the majority of the people going out there are willfully and premeditatedly violating the law, then you can educate them till you are blue in the face and they won't change. The reports we heard last spring suggested the latter. For willful violators, the only way to effect change is to cite them and/or change the law to take away their opportunity to violate.
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Look -- this isn't a biological issue. This is a moral and ethical and social issue. It should be dealt with through EDUCATION. Not regulation. The WB got it right.[/quote]
Maybe, maybe not. If the bulk of these violations were due to ignorance of the regulations, then what you say is spot on. If however, the majority of the people going out there are willfully and premeditatedly violating the law, then you can educate them till you are blue in the face and they won't change. The reports we heard last spring suggested the latter. For willful violators, the only way to effect change is to cite them and/or change the law to take away their opportunity to violate.
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