I’m not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I’m talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they’re obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.
Miss me with the “tradition” stuff, it’s just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don’t tell me it’s to eat, like I said, I’m not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don’t tell me you’re respectful to the animals you kill; I don’t believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.
Miss me with the “tradition” stuff, it’s just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don’t tell me it’s to eat, like I said, I’m not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point.
Well you’re clearly not literate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_management
The population is managed through hunting to as to avoid the overpopulation of deer, which is catastrophic for the ecology.
Not because every single hunter is some sort of psychopath. What a childish notion.
This entire thread is giving me deja vu from a thread I thought I read on Reddit years ago.
Not saying this one was, but I wonder how many posts are copy pasted from old reddit posts and placed her now. The comments all seem familiar as well. Maybe I’m just tired.
I don’t copypaste, but I have argued the same thing on Reddit before, so you may have seen me arguing the exact same thing.
Or someone else, because it’s pretty common sense.
If you’re having an honest conversation here, the appeal to common sense is a fallacy.
You’re coming off pretty self-righteous and judgmental. If you’re wanting to change minds I doubt a accusatory stance is helpful.
You seriously think they are hunting because of a population issue? That is just why they are allowed to hunt so freely…
The hunters do not give a fuck, just want to kill some shit
You don’t know a single hunter, nor did you grow up in the country.
That’s painfully obvious.
You don’t even know what country I’m in.
You’re beyond arrogant, simplistic and naive.
They aren’t allowed to hunt freely here, there’s a very specific amount of felling permits.
You don’t know shit and you’re not willing to learn.
That’s a lot of assumptions 😂 Almost all of which are completely wrong
I don’t care if your butt hurt, stop whining and look inward
You don’t need to kill, period.
I get that we have some species that need to be culled for the sake of the greater good /circle of life / balance of nature, etc., but I have no desire to do that work myself.
Hunting is hobby-murder regardless of the justification you put behind it.
Not all killing is murder — and to pretend the killing of any animal is takes away from actual homicide.
“I realise this is a necessary part for society to function the way it does, but I think every single person who does it is doing it for the sheer pleasure of killing”
Using that same logic, all plumbers have a scat-fetish?
It’s beyond amazing to me how disconnected some people are from nature. Death is seen as something horrible, instead of something that literally every single organism will one day face.
Yes there are really weird dudes in hunting groups, but there are also completely normal, non-psychopathic non-murderers, and if you pretend there isn’t, then I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about the subject.
Until the animals are able to speak up for themselves and tell us that they want to die, killing is murder regardless of the mental gymnastics you perform around it.
Thanks for not bringing up eating! I really appreciate it.
Yes, population management is a real thing. Not denying that, and I probably should have mentioned it.
I still find the people that want to participate in it for fun very creepy.
I still find the people that want to participate in it for fun very creepy.
Some are rather weird, but I can understand liking nature hobbies in which you are alone or with a few buddies if you’ve had social problems. (Talking about some people I know.) But yeah. Some are weird. But also, some aren’t. I don’t think killing an animal means you’re a psychopath, per se.
Most of the hobby isn’t about the kill. Hell, most of the year killing them isn’t even allowed.
Since you mentioned eating though, I’ll say that I actually really enjoy game meat. It’s relatively cruelty free. An optimal killshot might not still instantly kill (as in you don’t aim for the brain, but the heart), but at least they’ve lived an actually free life, unlike powerfarmed cattle, from which you can almost taste the misery. (I’m a flexitarian and try to make somewhat moral choices at least most of the time.)
Since you mentioned eating
No, I specifically tried to avoid it, but go ahead and ignore that 🤦
Hiking is a thing you can do in nature alone or is groups that doesn’t involve killing, so I don’t understand your point about that making hunting less creepy. And even if most of the hobby isn’t the actual killing, the rest of it is planning, setting up for, fantasizing about, talking about, etc., the killing, so that’s not very convincing either. Like I get that if you have, say, cooking as a hobby that you look up recipes, buy ingredients, and eat, but nobody that has cooking as a hobby buys ingredients to not cook (raw vegans excepted 🥁🥁🛎️).
And telling me about how different flesh tastes depending on how you kill them sounds pretty creepy.
This is a manmade problem though. We exterminated all or most of the predators that would usually do the duty of population control in our stead, because said predators didn’t differentiate between livestock and wild animals.
What of it?
Would you happen to have a time machine so we can go back and change history so humans never replace said apex predators, or does the fact that “we did it” mean that we don’t need to keep hunting and we can just let species overpopulate and destroy the ecology completely, even for themselves and other species of plants and animals?
