[The Bacon Guy]

Quote by: Matt If people can think a passtime they enjoy is worth more then many lives (lives' with thinking capabilities) then they have problems.

Perhaps by your subjective standards.

Quote by: Matt 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.

Right, so a wolf killing an animal can be done efficiently and putting a bullet in an animal can be done efficiently. The difference is that one method is enjoyable to a lot of people.

Also, not all hunting is done with guns.

Quote by: Matt Plus, they need the food to live, we DON'T.

What difference does that make? The animal being killed doesn't care what the killer's motivation is. If you do care about the animals and not simply about judging people who enjoy things which you find distasteful, then motivation shouldn't matter to you.

Quote by: Matt Because their enjoyment causes harm and death to many lives.

And so would introducing wolves and cougars to control animal populations. What's the difference?

Quote by: Matt 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?

People with mental disabilities have a constitutionally protected right to life, they're not causing an overpopulation problem and they're likely to have relatives who would suffer as a result of their death.