The Killing of Animals in its many aspects

[godwulf]

Kitsune wrote:

I classify all of these things under "human nature", even if they seem very primitive.

No doubt that we do share certain urges and behaviors with other species - the ones that you mentioned, along with the recently discovered tendency of some male dolphins toward bullying and rape, to add another example - but I don't believe that we can simply, therefore, dismiss the behavior as 'natural' and not judge it from a distinctly human perspective.

Kitsune also wrote:

I'd think he's pretty messed in the head, but I also see the same in adults that dress in camo and head out to a field with bottles of stink and buckets of feed to attract deer then take pride that they could aim a rifle properly and squeeze a trigger.

My point exactly - I don't see a difference, either. And to add to the confusion, anyone who is anti-hunting is accused, by some, of being anti-Second Amendment. Hey, I don't read anything about hunting in the Second Amendment. It's a tradition, not a Constitutional right.

Brigliadore wrote:

...hunting is ok as long as you eat the animal you killed, and as long as you attempt to kill the animal with the first shot so it doesn't lay there in pain.

"Ok' with you, with many others, maybe even with me, if I were hungry enough and there was no other food available...my question, I guess, is "Don't the animal's feelings count for anything?"