What happens when you argue about symptoms and the best way to treat them?
The illness continues or gets worse.
That’s what you’ll find in an article about the Antelope roundup by The Hill.
Apparently, the writer wasn’t interested in looking upstream in the management process to understand why roundups occur.
An advocate with WHE offered an explanation:
Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss is the main driver of problems for all wildlife, wild horses included.
OK. Why is their habitat shrinking? What’s causing the fragmentation?
Like the author, the advocates and their supporters have no interest or no ability to distinguish between cause and effect.
Their “solutions” don’t cure the disease, they make the patient feel more comfortable.
It’s like adding inspectors at the end of a production line to cull out defective items.
The practice can only prolong the problem because it does not fix the causes.
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