2007-11-20 08:29:45 · 49 answers · asked by Linz VT•AM 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wild life. LOL Sorry! :o)
2007-11-20 08:34:39 · update #1
Haha hush, Lev. :o) I think I'm seriously the only person from WV that doesn't condone it, though...I can remember being 5 years old, begging my uncles to not go out and hunt on Thanksgiving morning. I'd say, "what if you accidentally kill Rudolph?"
2007-11-20 08:40:45 · update #2
What are we hunting?
Snipe hunts? No fun....
Easter egg hunts? Way fun...
Hunting for deals at Best Buy? *Faints with joy*
2007-11-20 08:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 16⤊ 2⤋
What exactly do you mean by sport? Do you mean you want to hunt and keep or donate the meat? or do you mean you want to hunt just just to say you killed something?.......There is a big difference in these. I am an avid hunter along with my husband and I do not believe in caged in hunts or what we call trophy hunting (only getting the biggest thing you can find). I do believe in the thrill of sitting there and calling in your target and getting them to come to you and then when finished to either donate the meat to a charity to feed the hungry or eat it yourself. If that is the case then yes please hunt and enjoy your hunts in the outdoors for it is a wonderful gift that we are able to do this. The thrill of adrenaline is the most intoxicating thing you will ever feel.
2016-05-24 08:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by cathy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not opposed to it...I don't necessarily see the enjoyment in it. It always bugs me when you hear people, or see them on a hunting show on TV talking about how beautiful the animals are....and then they kill it...whenever I see something beautiful...my first thought is not about destroying it. But, it takes all kinds...and hunters are good about conservation and controlling population. And I do like to eat game animals. So I hope they enjoy. Personally if I was a hunter I would rather just take pictures of the animals. I always thought they should make a mock gun where the scope is a camera, so you could see if you would hit the animal...
2007-11-20 08:41:04 · answer #3 · answered by chavito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think hunting would be a fair sport if you tied a knife to the deer's head and then blindfolded all the hunters. Otherwise I think it's pretty stupid unless you are hunting for the food you live off of.
EDIT: Don't feel bad, I live in Tennessee. I think Bambi did me in. After seeing that when I was 3 I don't think I could ever condone hunting. It should mandatory traumatization for all 3 year olds.
2007-11-20 18:05:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a hunter. The way I look at is this: would you rather eat a hamburger from a cow that lives in deplorable conditions, bred only to be dinner, or a free range animal that at least had some freedom ahead of time?
Many people that are against hunting are not vegetarians, why aren't you?
2007-11-20 08:45:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ew! I can't imagine doing it.
AND - I'm not one of those people who has OTHERS kill my meat for me. I'm a vegetarian.
And yet - my boss is a big time hunter. He just got back from an African safari. All of the meat that wasn't eaten at his camp - was given to people in the local villages. I don't really think there is anything wrong with it. But I would never be able to do it myself.
I think - in Michigan - you can get a hunting license - even if you are blind. Scary.
2007-11-20 09:39:14 · answer #6 · answered by liddabet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My family has a hunting ranch in Fredricksburg, TX. There are high fences and the deer on our ranch are ours. The deer have over 500 acres to roam and eat.
Due to over crowding, we will have hunts this fall where 18 bucks and 12 does will be shot, cleaned and eaten.
Venison sausage is yummy.
I think this type of hunting is not only fun and helpful, but necassary from these deers getting over populated and ruining the land.
2007-11-20 08:38:05 · answer #7 · answered by dougfr007 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't really quarrel with the ethics of it because I think it's more natural and humane than the factory farming that produces most of our meat.
But from an ecological point of view, I think hunters overstate their benefit. While they may "balance out" populations like natural predators would, they kill the biggest and strongest animals, instead of the weakest. So while natural predators promote natural selection, hunters promote reverse natural selection.
And while they promote open space conservation, they only promote conservation for species they want to hunt, and they don't leave land entirely undisturbed.
But in the grand political scheme of things, conservationists (hunters) and environmentalists like me have more in common than not; we both want to protect the wilderness for generations to come.
2007-11-20 08:36:10 · answer #8 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Good Hunting: For food and to help regulate the population of animals
Bad Hunting: For fun and games, pelts and prizes, over-hunting and causing animals to become endangered.
If you are going to eat the meat, but keep the pelt and the head I have no problem with that
2007-11-20 08:34:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Oscar Wilde said (in his 1893 play A Woman of No Importance) that the English country gentleman galloping after a fox was 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
2007-11-20 08:39:00 · answer #10 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it's for fun I think it's a sick habit. Killing something and causing pain for fun is wrong. If you are killing an animal for food that is full grown and you kill it as quickly as possible and are thankful to it, that is different. The Native Americans had the right idea about hunting.
It makes me sick that they have these hunting grounds where they stock them full of animals that rich white guys can kill easily for sport.
2007-11-20 08:34:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋