Better yet: pass the appropriate legislation so we don't make a mockery of ourselves and people don't think they can bend the rules anytime they feel like it just because "the ends justify the means."
I can picture it now: "Save the Bees" Act
Allocate $1 billion for protection of bees in the state of California
Allocate $3 billion to inner city schools to educate them about the importance of bees
Allocate $6 billion for social justice programs in University of California schools
Increase gas tax by 25 cents per gallon to fund bill
The damage this sort of thing does is extremely deep. If we cannot agree on definitions, then we cannot comprehend each other. We cannot communicate and therefore cannot come to consensus on how to deal with problems.
Yay for bureaucracy and activist judges /s
Although four different bee species were classified as endangered in 2018, land invertebrates are not explicitly protected under the state's Endangered Species Act (CESA), which protects endangered "native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant."
So they had to compensate for one stupid law by making another.
Well, why not? Men are women, women are men, and bees are fish. It all fits.