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Trophy Hunting, Ethical or Unethical?
- Thread starter jojom
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Totally utterly unethical. I don't even care if it is legal or not.
Destruction of beautiful things or creatures for the thrill of destruction and death might be the lowest form of motivation imaginable.
So I put it in a moral category with child molestation and stock market manipulation and other forms of completely unsupportable behavior. I don't care what the law is.
Tom
Destruction of beautiful things or creatures for the thrill of destruction and death might be the lowest form of motivation imaginable.
So I put it in a moral category with child molestation and stock market manipulation and other forms of completely unsupportable behavior. I don't care what the law is.
Tom
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Not really for or against it.
Humans have already destroyed so many species and what not, what's another 10?
If certain species are so important to a group of people, they can create an organization and preserve them in a live habitat.
Humans have already destroyed so many species and what not, what's another 10?
If certain species are so important to a group of people, they can create an organization and preserve them in a live habitat.
Another 10 that you casually dismiss.
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Unethical for the most part. There are some exceptions, such as pests and a species that's become overpopulated to the point of being a pest.
So long as you get a permit and you shoot only animals that have clearly lived long enough to properly spread their genes around, why does it matter? Keep it super-regulated and keep the number allowed to be hunted low. I respect people who go and hunt animals that can hunt you back. Idealy, though, I'd restrict it to only certain weapons. No rapid-fire, super-high-power rifles or machineguns or other bull****. Bows, spears, muzzle-loaders or such? Yes please.
...the food to rot? I wasn't aware animals were such picky eaters. Do they walk up to the meat, somehow deduce it was killed by a hunter, and then decide to not eat it out of principle?
Because life matters.
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Correction: life matters too.
Paranoid Android
Active Member
To me, personally, it is unethical. Pacifism says you don't kill animals. Yes, we have an exception to that rule. If a group clearly states they want to do genocide to an ethnic, religious or cultural group, we can go to war. But outside that exception, we can not kill anything.
For me, personally, I would not hunt. It is not a Dementheology statement, nor is any Dementheologist required to follow it.
For me, personally, I would not hunt. It is not a Dementheology statement, nor is any Dementheologist required to follow it.
So the animals who aren't hunted by people won't ever be killed by another animal? I'm not endorsing 19th and early-early 20th century "shooting trains" that the Archduke and other wealthy people of the era used.
JRMcC
Active Member
That's what meat eating in the U.S.A. is.
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
From an objective perspective, losing a couple more species makes little difference to humans, or to the world.
From a subjective perspective, I don't see anything compelling in exotic animals, so I don't have a reason to care.
Killing such animals is wrong? I don't have that subjective perspective.
They are one of a kind? Doesn't make them special.
It's the fault of humans that they are all being killed? Humans kill things, that's just the way it is.
I take a neutral position on this topic and do not advocate for or against hunting exotic game.
It doesn't appeal to me, but I see nothing wrong for those who want to do it.
Yeah, animals die, but as a dedicated fan of meat eating, this is no different.
Thana
Lady
I've never felt the desire to go out and kill an animal so maybe it's good fun to those that do.
And we've done plenty of worse things in the name of entertainment.
I don't like it but I won't try and stop it, And I suppose as long as the kill is humane then I won't begrudge them their fun.
Baladas
An Págánach
I probably would not be opposed to this, actually...so long as the corpse is not left behind.
I suppose that my reply is mostly an emotional reaction to that jackoff who shot the lion.
Well of course not... It still seems wasteful to simply kill them.
If they are going to kill them, I would rather that the parts be used for something.
Baladas
An Págánach
Well to an extent it is, yes.
This is a different topic, but I am definitely for an overhaul of the meat industry.
They shouldn't be allowed to do what they do.
I can understand that. I dislike a lot of modern hunting simply because it's just not fair. If you're doing it for food, yeah, use whatever you have to. But if you're doing it for genuine sport...unless you're hunting a Tyrannosaurus you don't need a rifle that can go through an engine block.