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But won't people soon get wise to the actual intent and clam up again? Not if the results are used carefully, Jones argues. "It's not going to be used to criminalise people," she says. Instead, the results could be used to target conservation outreach efforts and compensation for livestock lost to predators on areas where ranchers are especially likely to kill carnivores.

This is key. When you criminalize people for trying to meet their own needs, defend themselves and so on, you create very big problems. It has to be acceptable to survive, make a living and so on. There has to be a system in place for resolving conflicts of interest that adequately considers the needs of both sides.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Finding the quote I wanted also led to these quotes and I like them:

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -- Abraham Lincoln

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. -- Mohandas Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. -- Mohandas Gandhi



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