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Quote by: USSRv2  Hunting, like eating beef, is murder. No animal excists for the purpose of feeding you. We humans have to ability to substain from murdering our fellow residents of this plants, and that ability almost makes it our duty. Apart from the taste, there is no justification in murdering the animals of our planet. A pig has the intelligence of a 3 year old child, would you be okay with me having a cage full of 3 year olds? Perhaps i could rape them, but hey, you know, they aren't all that smart. |
I agree 100%. I forget who wrote the quote, and forgive me if I get it a little wrong:
"Animals are here for their own reasons, just as blacks and women are." This I think is an older quote, when still women and blacks weren't considered equal.
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Quote by: Technosoul This is where hunting is better then killing farm animals for food. Because the smarter animals with a high "I Q" would out-fox you and avoid getting shot at, and stupid ones would end up as food on the table. |
Nah, maybe on a few occassions, but it would pretty much be the luck of the draw. I wouldn't consider an animal who deeks behind a tree and the bullet hits the tree to have a higher IQ then the one who never deeked behind the tree and got hit. It was just unlucky.
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Quote by: The Bacon Guy No one needs to hunt. Some just find it to be an enjoyable passtime.
So your objection to hunting is that it's cruel, and your alternative to it is to have the animals in question torn apart by predators?
That's one way of doing it. But why deny people the enjoyment they get from hunting? |
If people can think a passtime they enjoy is worth more then many lives (lives' with thinking capabilities) then they have problems. I only think hunting is ok if you HAD to hunt to live.
Actually, predators, like wolves or cougars, are very efficient killers (in most cases), probably equal to the power of a bullet placed in the right spot (alot of times bullets aren't placed in the right spot, which can cause a horrible death). For example, a cougar is up in a tree, it sees a deer walking below it, it jumps down on the deer, bites it neck, and the deer is dead within seconds in most cases. Plus, they need the food to live, we DON'T.
Because their enjoyment causes harm and death to many lives. Maybe we should have a yearly hunt for people that have mental dissabilities who have the thinking power of a deer. What's the difference? None really. Though I bet if you asked a group of hunters, they wouldn't do it because they would view it as 'immoral'.