Opinion of hunting

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

I personally not a fan of hunting, ending an animals life is wrong, and immoral.

[ElectionsGuy]

Freedom Sport. I personally would not like hunting, and I don't like killing animals, but I don't mind those who do.

[TNF]

Love it.

[RogueBeaver]

FS, obviously

[Frodo]

Usually I have my qualms about hunting animals that can't fight back, but when it comes to eradicating introduced species, like wild boar (and I am speaking from the North American perspective), I say go for it.  

[Goldwater]

FS, obviously

[Deus Naturae]

FS, obviously

[Flake]

Usually I have my qualms about hunting animals that can't fight back, but when it comes to eradicating introduced species, like wild boar (and I am speaking from the North American perspective), I say go for it.  

Wild boar is a huge problem down here, there are now farms that produce citrus only, that now are selling wild boar meat.

[bedstuy]

If you regulate hunting and make sure people comply with wildlife management principles, I see no problem with it.  Hunting is a cultural activity for many people and it's certainly no worse than slaughtering a farmed animal.  And, just in general, the idea that it's inherently wrong to kill an animal seems very silly to me.  

That said, I've gone hunting once and I found it extremely boring.  Plus, there are usually guns involved so it's potentially dangerous.  There are so many activities I would rather do than hunt.

[Consciously Unconscious]

I have never been hunting, and I don't plan to, but it's still a FS.

[Flake]

FF, most likely wouldn't do it.

[Zioneer]

I don't honestly care for it, and I see the veneration for hunting and guns in the US a little bit disturbing, but eh, it's none of my business.

[Hatman 🍁]

Ridiculous and pointless, not to mention immoral.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If animals were not to be part of our diet, God would not have made them so tasty.   I doubt I'd ever tke up hunting myself, but I see nothing wrong with it.  Frankly, there are far more ethical problems with factory farming than with hunting.

[Peter the Lefty]

Completely horrible sport.  Would only do it if I were starving.  How anyone can get a thrill out of killing animals is beyond me.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I enjoy it, but not enough to do it regularly.

[Alcon]

I don't understand how people enjoy this, but then again I am a soulless vegan, and I think it's immoral.

[DC Al Fine]

I've been deer hunting with my girlfriend's brother a few times. It's not my cup of tea. Too much tramping around the woods in crappy weather. That said I don't have any moral qualms about it. It's like stamp collecting in my eyes; a boring hobby.

[Incipimus iterum]

Freedom Sport

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Never been, but I'd like to try.

[dead0man]

Ridiculous

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that doesn't even make sense...unless you think EVERY hobby people have is pointless

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how?


I don't hunt myself, boring, don't own a gun and nobody I'm close to does it.  I can understand not liking it, can understand people thinking killing animals is wrong (but only if the person making that claim is a vegetarian of some flavor).  Right now the white tail population is kept in check, for cheap, by hunters.  Outlaw hunting and the outlawers better be willing to pay to go out there and put condoms on the deer that would soon clog our roadways with their rotting bodies (not to mention the many more humans that will die in vehicles colliding with them or the millions we'll have to spend fixing our broken cars).

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

No opinion. I wouldn't do it (seems fairly boring) but I have no issue with people doing it so long as it's properly regulated (quotas, no hunting endangered species, etc.).

[Link]

Lol.  Strange thread.  The overwhelming consensus is the sport is undesirable but yet it is a "FS" and should be allowed to continue.

That said I don't have any moral qualms about it. It's like stamp collecting in my eyes...

Collecting tiny pieces of paper is the same thing as shooting a living breathing creature in the face?!  That is borderline sociopath man.

I can understand not liking it, can understand people thinking killing animals is wrong (but only if the person making that claim is a vegetarian of some flavor).

Even slaughterhouse workers avoid getting assigned the job where they have to do the actual killing.  Even people that kill animals for money find the practice disturbing.  It's a normal human reaction... assuming you aren't sick in the head.  If you spend time around real hunters there is a lot of tradition and ritual that surrounds it.  It probably evolved and persists to help people deal with the psychological fallout of what they are doing.

The other problem with that false meme is slaughterhouses are designed to kill animals quickly.  They are not designed to hit the animal with a single arrow and let it drag itself for hours around the wilderness until it bleeds out.

Right now the white tail population is kept in check, for cheap, by hunters.  Outlaw hunting and the outlawers better be willing to pay to go out there and put condoms on the deer that would soon clog our roadways with their rotting bodies (not to mention the many more humans that will die in vehicles colliding with them or the millions we'll have to spend fixing our broken cars).

Kinda makes you wonder how white tail deer existed before rifles and highways were invented.  As with the wild boar issue these are all man made problems.

I am of two minds about hunting.  It certainly has issues but there are much bigger fish to fry.  Hunting is dying a slow death in America away.  This thread is proof of that.

I am not for outlawing hunting but the casual manner in which people are discussing killing animals is disturbing.  And yes I have been hunting on multiple occasions.

[Hatman 🍁]

Ridiculous

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that doesn't even make sense...unless you think EVERY hobby people have is pointless [/quote]

Fair enough. Most hobbies are pointless, but I see what you mean.

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how?

I don't hunt myself, boring, don't own a gun and nobody I'm close to does it.  I can understand not liking it, can understand people thinking killing animals is wrong (but only if the person making that claim is a vegetarian of some flavor).  Right now the white tail population is kept in check, for cheap, by hunters.  Outlaw hunting and the outlawers better be willing to pay to go out there and put condoms on the deer that would soon clog our roadways with their rotting bodies (not to mention the many more humans that will die in vehicles colliding with them or the millions we'll have to spend fixing our broken cars).
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I believe it's immoral to kill animals for fun (not talking about food here). Is that so hard to fathom? It's barbaric. It's scary to think someone could enjoy ending the life of an animal. I can understand doing it out of necessity, but to enjoy it? Yikes.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I don't understand how people enjoy this, but then again I am a soulless vegan, and I think it's immoral.

I find it immoral to systematically remove all natural predators of an animal and then further destroy the ecosystem by letting the prey populate out of control.

We're the main predators of various animals now to keep their populations managed lest they ruin the forests.