Why do hunters think it's so fun to take the life of an innocent creature that did nothing to deserve death?

Question

I can understand hunting for food but if you're going to hunt for sport why not at least have the guts to have a fair fight (use bare hands instead of a weapon)?

Har har, Boker. If you're too weak to win a fair fight with an animal then you shouldn't be pursuing it. That's not estrogen; it's sportsmanship.

Answer 1

Do you eat meat? Yes?
Who kills it for you?
So what do you know about having "guts"?
Loser.

Answer 2

I think sometimes conservative view the law as a standard of punishment. You break this law = you suffer this consequence. Liberals on the other hand see the law as a protection for an individuals rights. The law protects my right to free speech and to peacebly assemble etc.. What both side often miss is what is good for society. Why should the law punish the wrongdoer? To get back at him? No it should be because the form of punishment is somehow good for society. By providing a disincentive to do wrong, the frequency or severity of the crime is decreased. And why should the law protect an individuals rights? If every right of every individual was protected 100%, wouldn't that be a form of anarchy or at least very near to it? The individuals rights are protected because society is made up of individuals. But these individuals also must live and work together. Surely the actions of one person will affect the lives of others. So we all contribute something to society and take something from society. Our laws must balance the rights of one person with the impact to the whole community. So how do abortion and the death penalty affect society? Abortion is the killing of an innocent baby. But it is also a judgement that a person can be killed regardless of their known innocence. It is granting the permission to the mother to kill a person based only on the fact that the victim is located in the womb. We can see the cascading effect of this in the embyonic stem cell research debate. We have now determined that another group of people do not deserve the protection of the law. We base this on the idea that they do not meet our subjective and fluctuating standard of worthiness to be called persons. All the while we know they are innocent. Native Americans were the first to suffer from this idea that some were unworthy to be considered persons, then slaves, now babies. Who is next? The death penalty on the other hand, deals with 3 kinds of people. There are those who are known to be guilty. These are the ones who do not make any claim of innocence. I see no problem with executing these as they are not innocent. The 2nd group are those who are in fact guilty but claim innocence. Their fate should be no different than that of the first group. They deserve nothing different. The 3rd group are those that are found guilty but are in fact innocent. It is only this group that deserves more protection. It is my opinion that this group will decrease significantly due to the use of DNA testing. Your statistics show this same trend. IMO we need to keep moving in that direction. Perhaps a mandatory review when the case is handled by a public defender would be another logical step. Whether the overall benefit to society outweighs the overall harm to society is debateable. What is clear is that we are not executing people who we as a society know to be innocent. So as our awareness increases, so does our demand for improved protection for the innocent. This is consistent.

Answer 3

Why do people who are not hunters attempt to say why we do anything. I think that people who complain about hunting do so because they are sissys with too much time on their hands. Get over your stupid PC BS, no one wants to hear your crap, even the poor little animals that are being killed by the big bad hunters. Also, how is it fair for a person to fight an animal without any weapons. An animal has sharp teeth, claws, and a thick hide. Humans have no natural weapons to combat an animal. When was the last time you heard of a guy punching out a bear? You are an idiot.

Answer 4

Have you ever been hunting? Before you and your compadres start saying how easy it is to go out and shoot something you should attempt a fair chase hunt. It's much more difficult that you are suggesting. Well below 50% of hunters with big game tags are successful each year.

I eat only organic meat. How much more organic can you get than a free roaming deer or elk, no hormones, no steroids, no pens no meat factory.

It's not about proving my manhood. I don't need that.

And yes, in the end I do hunt for sport. Yes, my family and I eat what I kill. But I would save a lot of time and money if I just went to the store and bought a steak.

Answer 5

Essentially your questions are: #1. Why hunt for sport? And: #2. Why not have a fair fight (use bare hands instead of a weapon)?

Answer #1: Hunting is sport.

Answer #2: Grow up. Man is relatively weak for his size, slow because he is biped and defenseless because he is fang-less and claw-less unlike the wild, rather than innocent, game he hunts.

If you don't like to hunt, fine. Get your protein ration from McD's; when Man first crawled out of the caves he was at the bottom of the food-chain. Through mastering fire, using tools and weapons he crawled to the top of the heap.

I propose the following: Let's stop the cruel practice of herding innocent, domesticated animals into slaughter-houses so that certain people don't get offended when they buy their meat. Instead, let's let anyone who wants meat fend for himself. Hunters would do alright. How about you?

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Answer 6

I eat meat, I have never hunted, I cant say anything against anyone who hunts for meat, But I will respect the fact of knowing many soldiers who saw to much death who dont hunt anymore. Would a sport be if both sides were evenly matched? Or one guy with a high powered rifle and a deer that tries to get away. Like I said, I have NOTHING against hunting, just lay off the hee man stuff.

Answer 7

Well maybe if the animals didn't run away all the time I would try it. Why is it that you tree hugging hippies always have to ask stupid questions like this? Notice how when you go for a walk in the park 9 times out of ten the animals run away? Well there you go! That is my reason to use my .22, 20 guage, and 30/06!

Answer 8

I am going to go out on a limb here assume you have never hunted before. If you had, you would know that hunting is one of God's greatest gifts to man.

It is so typical of anti hunters to have no real argument or understanding of the subject. I can tell this is true by how you refer to us as gutless.

Well, where do we start? I hunt coyotes and do not eat them because they taste bad. The pelts are worth money though. Many people enjoy God's gift of fur because it keeps us warm

I hunt prairie dogs because they hurt the economy by causing damage to ranchers and farmers. I could stop that, but then you would whine about the government having to pay the rancher for the damage.

I would assume you have never seen a wild animal suffer form lack of food or the bitterly cold winter. Are we supposed to let the animal population run unchecked so they can slowly starve to death? Hunters take great pride in taking care of our animals and their environment. We spend countless hours and dollars on our equipment to ensure quick humane kills.

And according to your ideas, if a predator is faster or stronger or smarter than its prey, that's an unfair advantage.


I think you get my point.

Answer 9

I would have thought anti hunters would have been better educated about what hunting is all about. How many of you are vegetarians, and further than that, how many have been in a slaughter house and watched how the kill is done there?
Hunting is a fairer, more humane way to get meat, but those who don't care to take the time to research it, yet want to scream and cry about the "injustice" of it will never understand, and that is truley unfortunate for them.

Answer 10

Most hunters don't hunt for sport, The ones I know hunt for food, I agree that it's not a fair thing to do to hunt for sport, but you honestly sound like a whiney little girl the way you asked your question, grow some testicles and ask again, without all the estrogen.

Answer 11

Huh?

Hunters are human. Humans are at the top of the food chain. We are above animals in the food chain. Hunters hunt animals. Animals are made of meat. Meat is good. We eat meat.

Don't give me that fair fight crap. Why don't you start ranting about the mass farm slaughter houses that use tazers or big decapitation machines to slaughter your cheeseburger or chicken pot pie. Why don't you rant about the hormones they are injected with and the tight quarters in which they live with no chance to roam free or run away from a hunter.

If you pulled your head out of your supermarket mentality *** you'd understand why people hunt.