Can Someone Explain Hunting to Me?

[yukoncpa]

An excuse to go to an exotic locale; Kodiak Alaska, Africa, etc, with your beer drinking buddies. Nobody wants to be a pussy and bring only a camera along.

[Zeno]

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bloodlust and power lol

I like to hunt the does with piano wire tied to two handgrips...sneak up behind them and strangle them.

I do it on the farm where they are trained to come and eat the grass and not be afraid of people b/c I can't run as fast as them.

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Some more interesting things to think about:

Anthropoetics

Bible Blood

Sacrifice


-Zeno

[John Kilduff]

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I understand hunters who hunt to eat. But I don't understand hunting for sport. I grew up in New York City and have been a city guy all my life, so I have not been exposed to hunting. But why kill a living animal for sport?

Mods: feel free to move to a more appropriate forum if you think it proper.

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I personally wouldn't hunt just for sport, but it is a fact that hunting is necessary to keep many wild animal populations in check and healthy (many of their natural predators have been removed). So, if someone sees it as sporting and by hunting is also helping keep to the herds healthier, well, they are accomplishing a good thing even if for a reason I personally wouldn't choose.

I don't like the idea of extreme blood sports just for fun, and don't relate well to the motivation; but hunting is more than just a blood sport, even if the hunters irresponsibly waste the meat. Illegal poaching is a different matter though, and no longer fits under the qualification of helping keep wild animal populations at healthy levels.

Are you really asking why some people like bloodlust and power over other living things? No doubt that is the (perhaps hidden) motivation for some hunters. Other hunters are consciously concerned about conservation and environmental issues and have a lot of respect for the wild animals they kill.

Also, if one eats meat but frowns on hunting, there is probably some sort of disconnect occurring between the emotional and rational parts of the mind on that issue. A person paying others to slaughter their food is just as much a killer as is a hunter or a slaughterhouse operator - they just insulate themselves psychologically from dealing directly on an emotional level with the effects of their actions of paying others to do their killing for them. Again, for many there is a disconnect between the emotional and the rational on such issues - and many probably like it that way, as they aren't forced to feel badly too often or too much about it, and are mostly able to avoid facing the stark reality of what it means to eat meat.

[samsonite2100]

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I'm a pretty typical non-hunting city liberal, but anyone who eats meat and has a problem with hunting is a complete dilltard in my view. For that matter, anyone who's not a vegan and has a problem with it. Actually vegans, too.

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Why am I not exempt as a vegan?

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Because they annoy me and their cookies taste bad. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[yukoncpa]

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but it is a fact that hunting is necessary to keep many wild animal populations in check and healthy (many of their natural predators have been removed).

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Along these lines, in parts of Africa, certain animals such as elephants would be extinct if it weren’t for privately owned hunting concessions. Private owners have the incentive to not only keep the animal population thriving, but to also kill poachers.

[John Kilduff]

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but it is a fact that hunting is necessary to keep many wild animal populations in check and healthy (many of their natural predators have been removed).

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Along these lines, in parts of Africa, certain animals such as elephants would be extinct if it weren’t for privately owned hunting concessions. Private owners have the incentive to not only keep the animal population thriving, but to also kill poachers.

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Thank you for the interesting factoid.

[BCPVP]

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but it is a fact that hunting is necessary to keep many wild animal populations in check and healthy (many of their natural predators have been removed).

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Along these lines, in parts of Africa, certain animals such as elephants would be extinct if it weren’t for privately owned hunting concessions. Private owners have the incentive to not only keep the animal population thriving, but to also kill poachers.

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Solution to the tragedy of the commons at work, folks. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[latefordinner]

I think Russia is legalizing polar bear hunting for the same reasons.

[pvn]

What's the deal with model trains??

[revots33]

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I understand hunters who hunt to eat. But I don't understand hunting for sport. I grew up in New York City and have been a city guy all my life, so I have not been exposed to hunting. But why kill a living animal for sport?

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I'm a NYC guy also and I've never understood it either. Must be a cultural thing. I'm sure if I grew up around it I'd think it perfectly normal.

But I didn't, so I see sitting in the woods waiting to kill a defenseless animal as a rather strange way to spend one's free time. But then again lots of people think playing online poker is a dumb hobby, so to each his own I guess.