Everybody is equal, except the people we don't like.

Yeah, it sure is an affront to the basics of civilized society when violent criminals are prosecuted. I mean, what justification is there aside from "we don't like them"?

Because I support prosecuting animal poachers, I do not approve of hunting them like animals themselves.

(Shrug) Sorry, I'm not 'equal' to a poacher. That's an idea that somebody spun from whole cloth, one that a lot of other people seem to accept as an unjustified axiom.

Although I don't support it myself, I live in America where there is the death penalty, so we already kill people for doing things we don't like.

I am advocating that the defense that poachers are just some poor schmuck that wants to feed himself is bullshit.