I did not call you names and yet you addressed your reply to me. I will let Editor-surveyor speak for himself.
Hardin was one of the things that was force fed to me in college. Such things have in fact been known to make my digestive system run backwards, at least from the duodenum up. “Commons” cases actually make more sense as exercises in game theory than they do as philosophy - typically doled out by leftist professors who understand neither what the essay is saying nor the basics of human behavior.
There were no “commons” involved in this incident, other than a few bison that seem to have strayed onto BLM land. The issue here is of one man’s property, the bison, damaging another man’s property, a fence and an unspecified quantity of grass (the grazing kind). Given that, does the owner of the fence have the right to hire leftist thugs to kill the other man’s bison? The court in Colorado said no and I agree.
Neither Barak Obama nor the financial status of the individual coordinating the conspiracy to kill the livestock are at issue.
Maybe back east you take a different attitude toward killing livestock but anywhere west of the Mississippi - even in “Kalifornia” to use your spelling, if you destroy another man’s property and the source of his livelihood you had better have a good reason. In other terms, it would be like someone driving their car through your fence and parking on your property. In such a case you would no doubt have the right to have the car towed and sue the owner for the damage to your property but I doubt that in Georgia you would have the right to hire someone to set fire to it.
Oh I agree that he probably shouldn't have killed them the guiding moral being that two wrongs don't make a right, but everyone seems to think that there was no wrong on the part of the bison owner. AND there is a commons in the open range principle that people here have quoted at me ad nauseum. However killing stray bison is not at all unusual even in the west - see the link in post 88. And it was certainly common in the western tradition that one person tried to quote at me. between 1830 and 1897 40 - 100 million were killed.