Re: Can Someone Explain Hunting to Me?
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Well, many sport hunters are aware that they are doing the animal population some good by helping keep the herds down to healthy levels.
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Again this is probably because I'm a wimpy non-gun-owning city guy...
but there's a big difference to me between "helping the animal population" and "shooting a defenseless deer".
My assumption is that the act of shooting the defenseless animal involves SOME sort of enjoyment on the part of the hunter. It's not like he wakes up on a Saturday morning and says, "damn I hate shooting deer but I've got a moral duty to help their overpopulation problem."
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