Re: Hunting.  Why do humans take joy in killing innocent animals?
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Some people are just plain sick.  I knew a guy who buried his cat up to it's neck, and ran it over with the lawn mower.  The guy should be locked up!\n\nIn other cases, there are hunters out there who really do rely on their hunt for food for the year.  They aren't all necessarily sick or just taking joy in killing innocent animals.  Some of them are just providing for their families - and quite often, a good feeling of accomplishment comes with doing that, so they come across as people who just enjoy killing, though that's not necessarily the case.\n\nI tried hunting one year.  I sat around eating cold pizza for about half an hour, then saw (and shot) my first deer.  I ran victoriously over to the dead animal, cheering inside over my victory, but then, as soon as I grabbed it by the legs, and started dragging it out of the brush, I became aware of the fact that this had been a living creature.  It was a sobering and emotional experience.  I personally haven't gone hunting again since, but I can't blame those who do.  Everybody has their own reasons.  (Hopefully, most of them aren't crazies! :)
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i don't think there is anything wrong with wearing fur, but i would like people to hunt the animals them self's and use the entire thing.  Or at least do the research and find out if the place the fur came raised the animals humanely and they did something with the rest like made it into dog or cat food or something like that
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Animals don't have souls, that is why we can kill them to eat them.  You don't see anyone killing your neighbor just for some prime rib(at least I hope not)
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yes it's ok.. I mean we eat meat... the animal is killed anyway so why not by the hand of the individual rather the company\n\nbesides.. you get a deer and you'll have free meat all winter. \n\nit saves a lot of money and feeds you and family\n\nBesides.. hunting is actually a form of conservation.\n\nanimal populations have increased sense organized hunting has been inacted.\n\nit controls populations and kills off the weak and provides a more stable biodiversity\n\nI always use to feel bad about it but then I came to this realization...... a lot of animals are killed by cars or other accidents or even other predators.. so why not us and we are able to feed are families\n\n\nare we so far distant from the days when hunting was a necessity for providing food for family that today we cannot do it and be fair .. no\n\nhunting is not wrong when acted upon appropriatly and with a mature respect to nature and the causality of what ones effect/impact may have on wildlife..\n\nwith a mature mind... hunting is a good thing.. it is a course of nature\n\n\n\n\nps... I'm drunk.. and dammit. .I'm not going to read this over or spell check it.. but I hope I got a point across
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Interesting question - I'm glad you are thinking about morality and I would like to hear what the anti-fur people have to say about this. If they're not vegetarians, I'd like to hear why they treat some animals (their pets) extremely well while eating others. And why don't the anti-fur people complain about wearing leather? And why aren't they saying anything about the millions of modern day human slaves? I think it is important to have a consistent and logical justification for my own actions!\n\nI believe that *IF* the animals are treated humanely, there is no difference between eating them and wearing their fur. Remember that fur is a renewable resource, but synthetic fur comes from oil, a limited resource.\n\nNot all furs are harvested inhumanely, but the grisly image of clubbing seals and trapping beavers overpowers reality. So anyone who treat their animals well don't necessarily get the credit they're due. Sad that appearances often play a bigger role than facts when making decisions.\n\nIt would probably be more productive if the anti-fur people created a reporting scheme to give credit to those who treat animals well and somehow gave a seal of approval to them. I think most of my countrymen would rather purchase fur products from this type of source than people who maltreat animals.\n\nRegarding your point on the the nutrients in meat, it is possible to be a healthy vegetarian, except that even vegans need vitamin B-12, which only comes from animal sources. And it is almost impossible to avoid eating insect parts in grains, so there is really no such thing as a human who has never eaten animals.
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to which animal are you refering? scorpions know all we need to know about the human animal-they are thoughtless killers. a humans instinct is to kill anything they don't like or understand-i know because thousands of my kin are now DEAD because of you stinking humans
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no idea, isnt killing alife a life, ie killing a deer and killing a human
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Some times people kill them for the "sport" and even more for the MONEY!  Yes, like the tusks of elephants for the ivory.  It is really sad but it is true.  Minks get killed for their fur....but that has slowed down but it still is happening.  I think more people are aware of the crualty to all animals espically endangered and many have woken up to the wrong doings.  However, there are still some boneheads that don't quite get it.(But that is true in life)  PITA ia a great program trying to protect animals.
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Forget about the whole "we're so much better than animals" thing. Our animal instincts still affect us, even though it's not apparent. The "fight and flight" instinct is still prominent in our systems.\n\nSo when man murders outside of "he'll kill me first" then it's a mental thing that they are willing to do. Does that mean that we're all capable outside of that, sure. We just decide that a person's life isn't as important as ours (which is what hunters have when they hunt, no hunter things of the animal as an equal). So if you can value a life over your own, then it's possible.
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Thou shalt not kill.  Turn the other cheek.  Vengeance is a primitive desire that the species presumably will grow out of.  It is also condemned by Christianity.  Not a lot going for it.
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Vegetarians are largely the same people that protest hunting, throw blood on fake fur, and kill abortion doctors.\n\nDo you know how many people are killed every year in car/deer accidents? or how about the last time the bleeding hearts freed all the mink at the local mink ranch, and the mink went to the local trailer court to feed on all the cats? Or this "it's too mean to kill fetuses, so I'm gonna kill people." mentality, what's up with that?\n\nSo, if we put two and two together, bleeding heart liberals like deer, hate cars, like mink, hate cats, like unborn people, and kill abortion clinic docs.\n\nSo, what's next? \n\nAmerica becomes a third-world country, and looks a lot like India did back in the 70's, where a starving child can be seen right next to a healthy cow, in downtown Milwaukee.\n\nThe national speed limit is reduced to 15 miles per hour on account of all the deer, cows, pigs and sheep, roaming freely around the country, eating our crops before we can, and crapping on our children. Ted Nugent replaces Osama Bin Laden as the world's most wanted criminal, and I get arrested repeatedly for Vehicular Deerslaughter.\n\nEver see "Nightmare on Elm Street? Remember how Freddie Krueger was conceived? 'nuff said.\n\nOh! did I mention the Bovine Holocaust Museum?\n\nHopefully, the punishment for Vehicular Deerslaughter is lethal injection. Did you know they sterilize the area with a cottonball soaked in alcohol before they insert the needle that'll kill you? Ya think they're worried about giving the condemned an infection?
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Man.\n\nKills without motive, without provocation, for sport, sometimes just out of boredom and ennui.\n\nCan be exceptionally cruel to it's own kind as well as other species, slaughters entire species into extinction for reasons other than food or survival.\n\nWill selfishly pollute and ruin the environment for personal profit, without even a thought to the consequences to its own offspring.\n\nI can't think of a nastier animal than we humans.  \n\nBest to you.
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You could also throw that question right back and ask why animals ever come into contact with us since they know we will kill them?\n\nYou would do well to study a bit more about the preservation of species. It's a line of thought that looks at the self-preservation instincts and tactics of all animals and organisms. Man is no different than any other animal, it will expand as a way of preserving its species and along the way anything that poses a threat to even one of it's members will be dealt with. Often times that consists of killing the animal, other times we simply remove ourselves or the offending animal in question to another location that is safe for both.\n\nYou also need to be a little more careful about using such final statements that are black in white in nature. Your question makes it seem that "dumb" humans just wander around and kill things that get mad at it, and that's all they ever do. \n\nInstead of just yelping out questions that are one-sided and poorly researched, why don't you spend some time reading about it yourself and learning something on your own, then come back and ask a smarter question.
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I'm vegetarian, and i'm no extremist or anything but here's how I feel:\nKilling animals is something that humans have done for a long time. period.  I think we should stop, because we don't need to do it anymore to survive, but that hasn't always been the case.  If anyone gets all up-in-arms about killing animals in a fantasy game, they're an idiot.  That's just my opinion as a doctor.  They would be the same kind of person that would take sex out of shakespeare to make it PC.  I would kill animals for food or points in a game, and I would let my kids do it, too.
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No.  Most hunters I know hunt for the food and those who don't donate the meat.  Deer do tons of damage to hay bails, cars, and it is the only way to control an already out of control deer population, without allowing the deer to starve to death
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Animals and humans are practically one and the same, animals want to eat procreate, protect there young, humans are the same except for one thing, The ability to reason and ask a simple but important question..WHY? \n\nAsking that question has enabled humans to explore and expand,whether evolution or god had a say in that, is another question. But instinctly animals and humans are more similar than some people might like to admit to. \n\nOur behaviour can often be predicted following models based on animals. But the knowledge of our mortality and questioning of it, separates man from beast.
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Boring no way.  I love it.  I love getting everything ready and sighted in.  I love sitting in the stand waiting patiently, it is so peaceful.  The hunt is the main part of hunting not just the kill.  I get just as excited with a spike as I do a "big pointer".  They all put meat in the cooler.  When your telling your story the main part is the hunt the kill is at the end.