Whats the point in killing a defenseless animal for fun?

Question

What is the mindset? Are you in favor of killing domestic animals as well? Is there a difference between watching a deer bleed to death and a dog? There is an over population of dogs and cats in the U.S. If the killer has no empathy for the animal, and the killer only kills what is legal to kill, what is the mindset of the killer? I would think narrow and extremely primitive.

Answer 1

Here we have another whiney liberal. OH THE POOR DEFENSELESS ANIMALS!!! WHAAAAAAA. Without hunting, they'd STARVE to death, you like that better than a quick, humane kill MOST hunters do? How about the next time you see a family of 5 killed on a busy highway because a deer jumped in the road causing an accident, will that make you feel better? I suppose you think the beef, chicken and pork you eat comes from animals who donated their flesh for your consumption. How about those leather shoes you wear, did the cow just shed its skin for you?
There's a huge difference between hunting game animals(NON DOMESTICATED) and killing cats and dogs. Michael Vick is going to jail and going to pay HEAVY fines for killing dogs, NOT ONE SINGLE ethical hunter has EVER gone to jail or paid heavy fines for legal hunting. Here's an idea for you, keep your rhetoric and blatant uneducated opinion out of the hunting section, and keep it where your ilk congregate. Afterall, we don't follow you around to the bus station restrooms to knock the peters out of your mouth when you're trying to have fun, so why come to the HUNTING section to prevent us from having fun.

Answer 2

The question is "What's the point of killing a defensless animal for fun?"
There is no point in killing any animal for fun.
That would be an immoral act in my book. I am a life long hunter, I kill ground hogs, deer, ducks, geese, doves and other kinds of animals. Do I enjoy the sport of hunting? Hell yes. Do I hunt for fun? No. I enjoy the challenge. I also enjoy the meat. It cuts the grocery bills and I can tell you that come Christmas there is nothing like a big Canadian Honker, soaked over night in my wifes Brown sugar brine and then smoked over apple wood. I look forward to that meal every year as does my family. Now, look at the population of Candanian Geese. The numbers are huge. People hate them in city parks because they fowl the water and the grounds. They over populate quickly, then nature steps in an kills them with disease and starvation, unless an artifical population control is used.
Ask Insurance companies if they support hunting deer as a method of controling claims. They do, and have infact they have beer known to introduce preditory species into areas where hunting has fallen out of favor. Really if you want to recude you insurance premium, get a license and kill as many deer as possible. If you don't like the meat, give it to a food bank so the poor can have some meat on the table. If you're a vegitarian and want to keep the cost of corn down, then you want every deer and racoon dead, just for pure economic reasons. You cannot imagine how much more profitable farming would be without deer, racoons, bears and whatever else eating the profits.
Well, just my thoughts. I'll go back to my cave now. The wife wants me draw some more stick figures on the wall. You know, me with my narrow, primitive mind set .

Answer 3

First point, Killing a defenseless animal would be a worm, anything above that has the advantage over us. Think about it, even birds can easily out-do us. They fly, most have good eyesight. that makes for a tough kill. Any land animal can either smell or hear us before we even know we are there and most have some sort of claws/hooves/teeth that will send you tot he hospital. So are they really defenseless?
Second point-Nobody hunts just for fun, most eat it or make some use of it, and if they do kill it just for fun and leave it lay (other than things like coyotes and possums) they cant call themselves a hunter.
I highly doubt any of us would shoot a neighbors dog, do you know anything about hunters or hunting?
Third point-Deer dont just bleed to death while feeling it all, they are in schock and have no clue what is going on after the bullet/arrow hit them. And yes there is a huge difference in watching deer and dogs bleed to death-we eat the deer, not the dog, deer are way overpopulated and will eventually starve to death if left alone to breed like rabbits, and dogs and cats and such are controlled house pets not going around humping anything that lets them.

When you grow up and get a life, you might just understand what hunting is all about. BY THE WAY, GET OFF AND STAY OFF THE HUNTING CATEGORY BEFORE I HAVE TO TELL YOU OFF AGAIN.

Answer 4

Good lord, is there really this much cluelessness in the world? The reason hunting licenses exist is so the deer and elk population don't multiply to the point where they don't have enough to eat or drink, which leads to miserable deaths of starvation, and so they don't eat what new growth there is in the forests down to nubs. We're seeing elk herds here in the west that number in the hundreds. They are tromping vegetation, eating each other out of house and home and generally destroying the country, and all because some liberal somewhere thought they needed a "reintroduction." PS - I literally know people in this world who will feed themselves and their families for a YEAR on an elk they shoot this November during elk season. If you can't understand or accept that, then just stay in your city, go to your little corner deli every day and LEAVE GOOD PEOPLE THE FVCK ALONE.

Answer 5

I'm willing to bet you have no problem ordering your steak, chicken, pork chops or fish when you go out to eat. If that's the case you are as guilty of killing a "defenseless animal" as the slaughter house worker is. I presume you have no moral problem with raising livestock for the slaughter which would then make you a hypocrite.

I hunt for several reasons. 1. The human animal is a predator by nature's or god's design. 2. I enjoy knowing the meat I put on the table is drug and hormone free. 3. I enjoy the challenge of the hunt, not the kill but the hunt. 4. I share the game I have harvested with others in need of food.

Stop your whiney posts and actually learn about the subject before you offer your uninformed opinions again.

Answer 6

Folks, Let's all calm down. This "individual" (I won't use the real word that comes to mind) is here only to be an anoyance. To be honest the inital rant sounds like a early teens boy baiting his parent and teachers just to get attention. He wins when he provokes a response. The best solution is not to give it to him/her.

That said. I've hunted for about 20 years now. Started as a boy with my father and will probably start taking my kids soon. They just need to get a little older. In the mean time I'm teaching them about the animals I hunt. Since i respect the animals I hope they'll learn that too. There is a very distinct difference between a hunter and a slob with a gun or bow.

Answer 7

In case you haven't looked lately, the entire human race is what you would call 'primitive'. Lots of examples in the news right now. It's Nature. We are part of Nature.

Maybe if you picked up a newspaper or read some history, this fact would be a little clearer to you.

Your belief that you are "above" this, that you have somehow magically "evolved" beyond being primitive, is just an arrogant delusion.

I prefer to live in the real world. I'm a man, a human, and my instict is to hunt and eat my prey. I enjoy being part of Nature just as Nature intended. Why you don't is the real question.

Answer 8

Narrow and extremely primitive would describe yourself since you already have attributed a mindset to a hunter.

Most hunters understand and care more about their prey and its environment than you can imagine. Learning the cycles of deer life, when they breed, how they select mates, where they live and how they adapt to humans ever increasing choke hold on nature as asphalt and concrete suffocate every possible bit of natural beauty for parking lots and commercialism is what a hunter studies and sees. How to coexist and take his natural place in the natural world as predator and how to use his intelligence to better deer habitat to grow healthier and stronger deer. The hunter aims on his quarry with intelligence choosing the animal that he respectfully takes versus the average citizen who endorses the new super Wal Mart and the cutting down of wildlife habitat, the destruction of wetlands and food sources all for a new housing sub division.

Short sighted and narrow minded would apply to the average person who obliviously chases wealth and prestige and cares nothing about the health of the natural world, the run off into the waters and the destruction of natural filtration systems that give us clean water.

But our children will see, our grandchildren will see. When the days of swimming in the local river and drinking tap water out of the ground seem ludicrous.

No empathy for deer? The foolishness and even arrogance you display disgusts me. You have attributed these qualities to me as a hunter and haven't even begun to understand your own naivety.

Answer 9

When I hunt and kill an animal it is out of concern for the feelings of the animal. You see, I eat what I kill. If you don't kill the animal first, it is very painful to them when you throw them into the hot grease. How would you feel if someone grabbed you and threw you into hot grease without first killing you. It would hurt, wouldn't it. Well, I don't want the animal to hurt so out of the kindness of my heart, I kill it first then it feels nothing when it goes into the grease. Now does this make better sense to you or are you so cruel as to suggest that I no longer kill the animal before preparing it for my table?

Answer 10

i personally don't kill dogs and cats and other pets.
but i do hunt.
and the main reason is the fact of population control. many people say, mother nature can take care of it. if u are an animal lover, would u rather see a deer get hit on the side of the road, with a broken leg and cant walk to get food so it dies, or would u rather see it taken swiftly, and without pain.
answer that honestly.

i'll leave it at that.