Antelope I appreciate your sentiment but to say roadherping was a privlidge is kinda looking at it bass-ackwards. Privildges are special things, above and beyond the norm that are either granted to a special class, or earned through some sort of special behavior. Whereas freedoms are basicly anything you can do as long as it doesn't hurt another person.



For herping to be a privledge, granted by the government, that would mean the herps actually belong to the government and they are granting us the privlidge to hunt them. The truth is the opposite, the herps belong to the people. The people have granted the government the right to prohibit or limit collection but IMHO that is only supposed to be done in special circumstances, such as in a state or national park or to set limits when a species is at risk of going extinct.

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