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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adam W" data-source="post: 1855812" data-attributes="member: 81080">Perhaps i didnt explain that very well,what i mean is we have to keep things in perspective  of course things should be taken seriously as there will always be something more serious happening but my point is there is only so far we can go with punishments for wildlife crimes as the punishment has to fit the crime and that goes for any crime, so to keep things in perspective if we give out huge fines or even prison sentences (as i'm sure many people on here would like to see) for wildlife crimes such as raptor persecution then we would have to give out extremely severe punishments for more serious crimes against people and we would run out of punishments severe enough to deal with the worst crimes.If for example we fine someone £10,000 or lock them up for 5 years for killing a Hen Harrier to keep things in perspective what do we do to a rapist or peadophile bring back hanging?</blockquote>