Hunting

[Kaftan Barlast]

As a friend once put it: "Why do I go angling? Why, for the satisfaction of outwitting the fish, of course!"

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Does he talk the fish into biting the hook?

[LadyCrimson]

No, I don't hunt. I just kill flies.

 

Hunting because you need/want food is one thing, hunting because you want a trophy on your wall or just want target practice is another. Hunters who shoot something and actually use/freeze the meat (most/all of it, not just a tiny bit of it) don't bother me...not everyone likes processed grocery-store goods - but the rest...meh. This includes fisherman, btw. At least fishermen can catch n release most of the time for their 'sport'. Bullets make that option rather hard.

 

And yes, sometimes animal populations get out of control re: human settlements, and I suppose I understand that too...overpopulated deer starving is part of nature's way, and if people want to hurry the process a little for meat and prudence, so be it.

 

Hunting animals that are nearing extinction tho...or hunting to extinction because humans don't want to share land with "dangerous predators/livestock thieves" - I'm very very against that.

[Child of Flame]

And yes, sometimes animal populations get out of control re: human settlements, and I suppose I understand that too...overpopulated deer starving is part of nature's way, and if people want to hurry the process a little for meat and prudence, so be it.

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It's not just that the hunters want meat, it's the disease that follows the hunger and starvation that's the real bitch. 'Specially since a lot of it spreads over into other species.

[213374U]

I've never gone hunting myself, but I don't have a problem with it. The few times I've tried some kind of meat obtained this way instead of a slaughterhouse, I found it tasted much better, though.

So I guess hunting is fine with me. Killing animals just for the hell of it is stupid, however. I don't see where the thrill is in killing a bear from 500 metres with a high powered rifle.

 

Stupid, but not wrong. Animals don't have civil rights. There are much worse things happening out there to sentient beings to worry about such nonsense.

[LadyCrimson]

To me it's not about civil rights for animals...it's about the level of racial maturity that such useless and pointless 'sport' says about the human race.

 

That and I like creature diversity.

[213374U]

Yeah, I already said it's stupid. Somebody that routinely engages in a stupid activity might safely be considered a stupid himself.

 

Sport hunters are a very reduced group, however. I don't think it's a representative sample of the maturity state of the human race.

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[Judge Hades]

Never been hunting, I would definitely like to go hunting. I dont think there are any cool animals here though.

 

To the people that disapprove, y'all better be vegetarian.

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I am not a vegetarian but I don't approve of hunting. The way I see it, hunting is an archaic form of gathering food that is no longer needed in a modern society. If we lived back in the 17th century somewhere inthe backwoods I would have no problem hunting, but I don't and I live less than 4 blocks to a grocer.

[Musopticon?]

Boomstick go boooom!, deer head go splorsts!!!

[Blarghagh]

Hunting is a neccessity if only to keep the prey populations healthy.  When there's too many deer, they run out of food and start getting sickly and dying.

 

In either case, the animals die and the population is back at a healthy amount. Same difference, except you're exhausting more effort than needed. We always just let the problems solve itself and it works fine.

 

Hunting is crap. Respect your equels, ****er. Your life is not worth a grain more than theirs. I hope someone starts picking hunters off with a hunting rifle just for irony.

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[213374U]

Hunting is crap. Respect your equels, ****er. Your life is not worth a grain more than theirs.

That is a random assumption to make, as life has no intrinsic "value". However, man has the power to kill any animal. And in the wild, might makes right.

 

So, whatever.

[Lucius]

Boomstick go boooom!, deer head go splorsts!!!

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Watch it, the Finn gots a knife. :ph34r:

[Judge Hades]

Watch it, the Finn gots a knife.  :ph34r:

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What about Tom Sawyer? A six shooter?

[Musopticon?]

STAB! BLOOD! UNIDENTIFIED GORY BITS!

[Lucius]

Who is Tom Sawyer? Not Finnish I assume. They got knives.

[Walsingham]

It just occurred to me that if all our meat were free range, we'd have no choice but to hunt.

[Judge Hades]

Who is Tom Sawyer? Not Finnish I assume. They got knives.

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You said Finn. It was a play on words. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, two characters in novels written by Samuel Clemons, aka Mark Twain.

[Commissar]

I've hunted deer and pheasant. I vastly prefer pheasant, because you don't feel as bad shooting them. With deer hunting, you've got to eat the meat. With pheasant hunting, eh...they're big pigeons, really.

[Dark Moth]

Me, I don't hunt, though a lot of people in my school do. I don't mind people hunting for the meat, but it's the trophy hunting I'm opposed to. I can't help thinking what it'd be like if I had a human head on my wall.

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[Surreptishus]

better than having it in your fridge.

[mkreku]

I hunt. Moose, ripa (a kind of bird, no idea what you englishsissies call it), hare, fox, you name it. My problem is that I don't have a hunting license, but since my father mostly don't have weapon licenses for his guns (which I borrow) it doesn't matter much. I don't like killing things though, I am too squeamish for that, but I do enjoy shooting at random things in the wild

[Walsingham]

How bad are you at shooting? You hunt, but don't like killing? Are you a stormtrooper?

[~Di]

No, I don't hunt. Like COF I also live in a rural area filled with both predators and prey, so there is the occasional necessity to kill mountain lions, coyotes, rattlesnakes and the like that endanger humans and livestock.

 

If my family was starving, I'd hunt to feed them; however, I find no thrill in murdering defenseless animals for the so-called sport of it.

[Vashanti]

I have before, when I was a teenager.

 

Not really my thing, either.

 

I know a couple of people who are really into it, but it just doesn't float my boat. It doesn't fill me with revulsion, either, but it just doesn't interest me.

[Slowtrain]

I've lived in big cities all my life so I've never really thought about it.

 

As long as the rats in the subways don't get too big and the alligators stay in the sewers where they belong, I don't think hunting has much purpose anymore. But I guess it doesn't really bother me either.

 

A person's take on hunting probably has a lot to do with where they grow up, I would imagine.

[Judge Hades]

I have seen a rat the size of a raccoon when I lived in Boone when I was a kid. Boy did M ymother scream when I showed her. It was crawling under the house then ran across the street to a street drain.