If you were a deer, what would you think of a "fat" (well-fed) hunter who wanted to kill you and your family?

Question

And, what would you think about a God who allowed that hunter to kill you and your family for the "sport of it"?

(I am not going to drop this. I am tired of religions authorizing the unneccesary killing of animals and PEOPLE.)

Dear "Lion" - I am not an Atheist like you said I am, I am a Christian, but that does not mean that I am fixated on Paul or my preacher. I will stick with the actual words and promises of Jesus himself. (And, yes the Holy Spirit witnesses to me just fine, as a result of studying Jesus' words, not Paul's.)

Answer 1

If I were an atheist deer, then I would see the hunter as a spoiled, egotistical enemy whom I must avoid or escape at every turn.

If I were a highly intelligent atheist deer, I would be plotting to keep hunters out of my home territory.

And if I were a spoiled, egotistical (atheist or theist) deer, I would be breaking into every human dwelling, looking for weapons of deer destruction and leaving the homes in a shambles and their occupants injured or dead. I would say this was justified by our need for self-preservation. If I were a deer who was theistic, I would also say that such action was God's will.

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Answer 2

Well as a hunter and a farmer. I see first hand the DAMAGE deer can do to a field. Which the plants those deer eat pays for the food on my families plate. They can and do alot of damage. I have seen whole fields completely destroyed by Bambi. Or the thousands of cars they damage or the people that are killed by hitting deer.

I am an atheist. I am not saying we are right to kill all of them. But in some areas there is a overpopulation of deer. I do not hunt for sport and can not stand it.

Plus Bambi makes good sandwiches.

Answer 3

Only the KING could hunt the deer or those who were with him. Even if he never went hunting, it was all considered his. There was no way a common person could legally hunt. In the USA the deer is considered the property of the people and those who want to hunt them can apply for a tag. But as we saw with the buffalo, uncontrolled hunting of anything is bad, so they restrict where and when you can hunt to keep the population of the game viable. The penalty for poaching is not payment for the deer but a penalty for acting outside the game laws. As a comparison, in Germany the game is considered the property of the land owners. They get together and form a large hunting area which they then sell to a reviermeister. He now owns all the game in that area and you can not hunt without his permission. He controls the hunting and since the game gets sold to stores, he makes money off it. The other side of the coin is if one of his deer jumps in front of your car and your car is damaged, he has to pay to fix your car. Both systems are set up to preserve a viable herd of animals and poaching in either is detrimental to that purpose. So all your other questions are irrelevant, the idea is to preserve the animals so they are viable.

Answer 4

Religions authorizing it for sport? And here all the time I assumed it was the government that required me to get a license to kill Bambi.

I also did not know I could get a license to kill PEOPLE. Correct me if I'm wrong but the last time I checked it was illegal... except for 007.

added:
Interesting comment from Gandalf above; “People would stop hunting for sport in a hurry if the deer could shoot back.”

Liberals are quick to use that logic against hunters but when I use the same argument in support of Concealed Carry Permit’s as a deterrent to crime (and it works) they go ballistic and call me a “gun nut”, go figure.

Answer 5

I'm not a deer, and I'm not convinced that they can think, but I do know that they are darn tasty critters.

By the way, I'm a life-time member of P.E.T.A.- "People for Eating Tasty Animals".

I just don't do the whole Ted Nugent thing. Killing animals for the sake of killing animals is both stupid and unneccessary.

Going off the road into someone's yard in a pick-up truck to run down a cat is, in my opinion, worthy of 20 years in the hoosegow.

Answer 6

If I were a deer, I'd be unable to comprehend that other beings have different thoughts to myself. I wouldn't understand the concept of sport or killing, and I probably wouldn't be able to identify a hunter as being fat.

However if I were a magical deer, endowed with human reasoning, then my perception of a god who allowed me and my family to be killed for sport would be that he either doesn't care or doesn't exist.

Answer 7

In an over-weight country there is no need to be killing wild game. It must be to satisfy their primordial urges, because there is no need for it otherwise. Man hasn't got over being the top predator of the earth, and he likes to reafirm it with cruelty to what he considers lower forms of life. If I was the deer, I'd think that these killers were the lowest form of life. While you are at it, could you please work to ban zoo's that take animals away from their native habitat, jail them for life in some type of enclosier, while throwing them some crap to eat? This is all for man to take pleasure on looking at the poor trapped animals, and teach their children the same callus attitude. With all the visual media we have nowadays, is there any need for zoo's at all? They are simply for mans pleasure, and to make money of course. I'd rather be dead, than trapped for life in a zoo.

Answer 8

Unneccessary? We need to eat. In the long run it doesn't matter if it's prepacked ground beef or deer we kill. At least when people kill deer they are coming face to face with their decision to eat meat.

And don't tell me we don't need to eat meat. We've all seen vegetarians that look like their skin is transparent and look lifeless with no colour. There's no way that's healthy.

As for sport... I'm on the fence about killing for sport, but if the meat is used then I suppose there's really little difference to killing for meat in the long run.

Answer 9

have you ever seen my cousin vinney??

his girlfriend is shocked that he is going hunting and he is worried about which pants he should wear.
she says - imagine that you're a deer and you come to a stream and you bend down to take a drink of the cool clear water when suddenly someone blows your head off. tell me would you care what kind of pants the @#$*& was wearing when he killed you?

not exact, but you get the idea.

eclectic pagan

Answer 10

if you were an ant in your backgarden what would you think of "the almighty homeowner" who let your entire culture be wiped out by marauding termites?
As they attacked would you lose faith in the almighty?

death is everywhwere billions of deaths each day, how do you choose, how do you know how to look in order to make a choice?

i dont decry your admirable actions but your have set yourself quite a task good sir!