i'm not gonna add a poll or anything, and my own opinions are pretty convoluted, so i don't really want to go getting into them just yet - maybe if i get something to work with. but i am just interested as to what people on here think of it.
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"I do this thing because it feels good" is little different from hunting for sport.
Yeh, so Hunting is great, I hate how people hunt for sport, you hunt for the food. Which is what I do, the feeling of being able to hunt and actually get something, and then end up eating it the next day or 9 months down the line. It's a good feeling. I've always been against people who hunt for sport, trying to bag the biggest and baddest of them all of w/e they are hunting, that's ruining the environment. Because most of those people waste that precious meat.
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i mean i get that there's a lot of sense to it, obviously
i put no particular meaning to it. what was probably mostly on my mind tho is the practice of 'lamping' we have over here, which is pretty f*cking revolting
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Assuming you mean African Safari Hunting:
If it's done legally, sustainably and is regulated, I have no issue with it. It brings in useful money which can be spent on conserving more endangered species, and it provides jobs for locals who might otherwise become poachers.
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and i mean i know that sounds kinda silly and whatever, it might seem a pretty obvious joke or whatever. but i was only shown the oldest tree in ireland recently and everyone who was there with me nearly auto-thought to do some damage to it. was strange. i'd say man takes a lot of death into him
i could never do it, but people that hunt deer are actually doing a good thing. they keep deer populations in check, because we took out their natural predators. so if hunters dont thin the herd, then they'll just starve during winter.
however i dont like people that hunt just to kill things and dont like, make use of the body. at least eat the damn thing.
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i'm aware, giga. still interesting it reared its head. i actually made this thread seeing if anything like it would
u know i wouldn't be surprised if this was actually a legitimate part of the psychology of it, a sort of conquering of one's own death in putting it on others. schadenfreude, if you'd like a word for it
honestly? it's how our species used to survive, and I acknowledge that. but some people who don't need to hunt to survive still do it for fun. I personally think it should never be done for sport, because killing animals for that reason is bad
honestly, i have no really solid argument against it, tho i do find it distasteful. i mean i could go a long way to making it out as deranged, but it'd take a bit of understanding to get it. it actually seems a really tricky one, thinking about it, because it requires building an appreciation for something that doesn't really have an inherent value (not like how human life is inherently valued in at least some way to a human).
