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Quote by: Slevin57  I personally would not go hunting. I get no enjoyment out of killing something that would not try to kill me. Especially with a gun from a safe distance away.
I don't really see a problem with seal hunting, I agree with Technosoul. |
But beware as my last commuication gave mixed signals.
I recall one of my first hunting trips with my brother, he let me us a 22 rifle that was made for kids (shorter in size). I was so excited to prove my skills at aiming and hitting the target.
The first thing I saw in the trees was a tiny black bird and so I took aim and shot it, and it landed on the ground. We rushed over to the kill and it was not dead, I had only wonded it and it lay there looking up at me with it's eyes as if to say "why? why did you shoot me?". And it was making painful sounds as well. It was no longer just an object in my perception but a living thing that I had injured. My brother told me I must put it out of it's suffering, and so up close I had to end it's life by shooting it in it's tiny head.
I was feeling real guilty about the whole thing when my brother told me about the "native" law of hunting.,, you must eat what you kill. That night I had on my dinner plate a tiny little chunk of cooked blackbird to eat, less then a bite full and hardly worth the life I had taken.
I was then apposed to hunting and did not do it again. However my brother pointed out that every hunter must experience that sort of thing so that they will learn not kill wildlife just for the fun of it, but only because one really needs that life they take to insure their own survival of life. (we were poor back then and my brother kept food on our table by hunting and fishing a lot). That was before Welfare or foodstamps were invented. A good hunter takes only what he absolutly needs from nature he said, exponding upon traditional philosophy.
Now we must eat food and so their is not much point in thinking we can do so without consuming the life of something else. But we should respect nature in the process as well as to conduct they process in a way that is as painless for the animals as possible. The less intelligent a animal or fish is the less aware they are to what is happening.
But a pair of shoes... and just so someone can charge a big price for a pair of shoes when a cheaper pair would do just as good. I am not in favor of seal hunts at all. But people no longer experience that "hunter's guilt" which is an introduction to the facts of life. And that is why they have no philosophy about the proper use of nature. No real connection to what they are doing when they put on those seal shoes.
That was my point.
Nature is like the symbol of a snake eating it's own tail. Nature consuming nature but the circular design keeps the process going on and on forever. Somehow? Re; philosophy from India.
And so when we die we will go to this dimension that is dominated by gaint Kentucky Fired Chickens and they will peck us for an eternity like we were bugs. Oh oh, it is after midnight and I should be dreaming instead of posting junk here at Volconvo...good night, don't let the bedbugs bite.