2006-09-20 02:40:55 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
I just wanted to clear up that I have no problem with hunting, as long as it's for food.
2006-09-20 12:21:35 · update #1
Hunting is LEGAL and involves killing an ANIMAL for food. Murder is ILLEGAL and involves killing a HUMAN, which if used for food is called Cannibalism.
2006-09-20 02:44:10 · answer #1 · answered by Kris B 5 · 12⤊ 1⤋
A difference? Like the grand canyon between the two. I don't know why I even wast my time with a stupid, simple minded question. I do more for animals and wildlife just by buying my hunting and fishing licenses than any tree hugger that thinks there doing the worlds biggest favor! I love what the earth has to offer just as much as tree huggers. Except I use what it has to offer and live the experience of it. More deer and family die every year by CARS! Imagine if the PETA had it there way, how many family members would get into accidents then.?
2006-09-20 07:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by tackelberry88 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
First and foremost, hunting, whether for food or sport, is legal. Murder involves an illegal act of killing a fellow human. Hunting can get you a fine meal; murder can get you executed. If you kill a large bull moose for example, in a legal, ethical manner, then you deserve the fine trophy and freezer full of best meat that you can find anywhere that comes with it. If you walk into a liquor store an unload a .40 into a 7-month pregnant mother trying to earn a living for her family for $50 and a 1/5 of booze, then you deserve to die, hopefully from one bullet from a cop's .357 before you get out of the store, because you're not worth the tax dollars to defend you, or worse, feed you for 20 years before your lethal injection. Personally, I hunt for two reasons, one just to get into the woods for some peace and quiet, and two, hunting is part of nature's balance. I think a swift bullet and quick death is far more ethical than letting wild game become overpopulated and starve back to the point where a habitat can support their population. You might say that I hunt for sport; my family, thank God, does have to rely on me bagging a deer to have a meal, but I do believe if you kill it, you eat it. For the record, I do a lot more "hunting" than "killing"!
2006-09-20 16:57:12 · answer #3 · answered by Answer Master Dude 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Murder can only be done to humans. There isn't any other reason to hunt but for food, even the trophey guys either eat the meat or donate the meat to a homeless shelter
2006-09-22 23:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hunting is to provide food. Murder is killing for pleasure or some time of gain. Murder is a legal definition, the wanton killing of another human being, not an animal.
2006-09-20 06:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by Charles B 4 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Hunting is for food....People don't kill people for food they kill for personal gain....If you feel that way...for those that said no differance...where do you think that steak or hamburger came from...it was a cow once...and I am sure that the cow had to be killed before it became a steak....I don't hunt for trophies, granted I am happy if I get one, I hunt for food...I love the feeling of hunting and processing my own food....my family practically lives off of what I hunt during the winter and the fish I catch during the summer.....
2006-09-20 03:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by yetti 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Of course you have a problem with hunting, don't lie to us or yourself. Otherwise you wouldn't ask such a question. In accordance with the bible, God put the creatures here on the earth for our use. He also said "and he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death" lev.24:17. The simple answer to your question is God tells us the difference
2006-09-22 21:59:43 · answer #7 · answered by CJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone assures me that there is a restaurant in Arizona that displays on its walls early nineteen-hundreds blown-up black and white pictures of hunters with the game that they killed in the desert. The hunters are proudly posing with their rifles and the Native Americans and Mexicans they have killed for sport. If this is true then those pictures plainly depict vile acts of MURDER.
Somewhere I have a picture where I am holding a 5'-8" Western Diamondback rattlesnake I killed while hunting deer in 1979. The week before I killed a nice Whitetail buck; the venison fed my family and I for a week. Was this murder, a rattlesnake killed in my own protection and a deer killed for food?
In case you still don't see the difference please allow me to set you wise: The unwarranted and willful taking of a human life by another human is... Murder. Dangerous animals kill for self protection and animals killed for food is NOT murder. Do you ever eat beef? Chicken? Mutton? Fish? Eggs? Veggies? Is that murder, even eating plants terminates their life? How about shoes? Do you ever wear leather shoes, leather belts, leather jackets? Does your vehicle have leather upholstery? Where do you think the leather came from?
Let me ask you one last question. Are you one of these people who thinks it is wrong to kill animals but thinks it is alright for women to have abortions? Inquiring minds want to know.
H
Whee! Look Ma, just two hours and I've already earned one big thumb down! I guess that means at least one person has read my answer. I wonder if it was the Native American/Mexican murders or the bit about abortion that got his attention? I sure am glad you didn't abort me when I was one week in the womb!
H
2006-09-20 04:36:50 · answer #8 · answered by H 7 · 12⤊ 1⤋
Oh boy..... here we go.
Murder? Let me guess, PETA member? VEGAN? Watched Bambi too many times?
Hunting is a sport. A way of life. A way of controling wildlife populations in a world where predators & habitats have been replaced by housing developments & Wal Marts. It also supports protection of wildlife through taxes, fees, duck stamps, etc. It also provides a food source that is as organic as you can get.
Murder? Is a crime and is spelled out as such in the 10 commandments.
Nuff said...
Now pass the ketchup, my rabbit is getting cold...
2006-09-20 05:17:32 · answer #9 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 13⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they sell licenses for murder. I don't thing there is usually any recipes involved when a murder is carried out. I don't think there is usually any murder trophy's hanging over anyones fireplace. And I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think I'd take my 8 year old son out to the woods to commit a murder, but thats just me
2006-09-21 14:20:36 · answer #10 · answered by seamlessB 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
webster's dictionary defines murder as "1 : the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought"
it defines hunting as "1 a : to pursue for food or in sport
2 a : to pursue with intent to capture
3 : to drive or chase especially by harrying
4 : to traverse in search of prey
intransitive verb
1 : to take part in a hunt
2 : to attempt to find something
having said that, murder is something done out of cold blood for the sheer reason of causing death. hunting is done for the reason of obtaining food, the fact that the animal must die in order for this to happen is just a fact of life. if you want to call hunting murder then why not call harvesting vegetables murder, those vegetables were a living organism until the farmer plucked them from the groud and killed them so that we could survive. in order for something to survive something else must die, its a fact of life and as much as you want to you cannot get around it and you cannot ignore it.
2006-09-20 08:50:50 · answer #11 · answered by YourDailyDoseOfCommonSense 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋