Hunting:Your views?

First of all, this is my opinion, so please don't get angry about it

I personally think hunting is immoral and wrong because if you took the concept of hunting, and replaced animals with people, you'd be put in jail pretty quickly! I think of animals as equal to people, and sometimes I value them even more; So many species of wildlife have become extinct because of hunting, and I respect that before, people hunted animals for food, because we didn't discover farming until we were quite advanced as a species, but when people hunt for pleasure, I think it's awful. None of these poor animals have ever done anything wrong to us, and then we go and shoot them, and most of the time, the bullets miss and leave the animal in horrific pain. Just imagine if that ever happened to you, you are walking along minding your own business, maybe to find food for your family and then BANG! you're left in the open, with a stinging gun wound bleeding out, uncertain if you're going to live or die, if you'll ever see your family again. It sounds like something from a nightmare, doesn't it. I'm not a vegetarian but I also believe (On an unrelated topic) that faming animals for meat, or testing medicine and cosmetics on them against their will is even worse, even on a small scale. I know we have evolved the way we have to chase prey and chew meat, but we have also evolved empathy, one of the most basic and crucial skills that is found in every animal, including us, and if you think that killing another living creature, snuffing out their light of life simply because you can, shows you have no empathy at all, and THAT is what separates us, monsters that kill because we can and have savaged the land we call home, from animals, gentle creatures that only ever kill to keep their families alive and to survive. To survive us.

snuffing out their light of life simply because you can, shows you have no empathy at all

Oh aren't I silly, of course I should have realised, you use a Butterfly net.

What religion has hunting as an obligation?

it's not fun if they're not shooting back

First of all, this is my opinion, so please don't get angry about it

I personally think hunting is immoral and wrong because if you took the concept of hunting, and replaced animals with people, you'd be put in jail pretty quickly! I think of animals as equal to people, and sometimes I value them even more;

So many species of wildlife have become extinct because of hunting,

and I respect that before, people hunted animals for food, because we didn't discover farming until we were quite advanced as a species,

but when people hunt for pleasure, I think it's awful. None of these poor animals have ever done anything wrong to us, and then we go and shoot them, and most of the time, the bullets miss and leave the animal in horrific pain.

Just imagine if that ever happened to you, you are walking along minding your own business, maybe to find food for your family and then BANG! you're left in the open, with a stinging gun wound bleeding out, uncertain if you're going to live or die, if you'll ever see your family again.

It sounds like something from a nightmare, doesn't it. I'm not a vegetarian but I also believe (On an unrelated topic) that faming animals for meat, or testing medicine and cosmetics on them against their will is even worse, even on a small scale. I know we have evolved the way we have to chase prey and chew meat, but we have also evolved empathy, one of the most basic and crucial skills that is found in every animal, including us, and if you think that killing another living creature, snuffing out their light of life simply because you can, shows you have no empathy at all, and THAT is what separates us, monsters that kill because we can and have savaged the land we call home, from animals, gentle creatures that only ever kill to keep their families alive and to survive. To survive us.

Ah we come to an impass in the debate.

You believe Animals have an unchallengable right to life.

I do not.

That's fine though, world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

People are cruel to animals but when an animal attacks a human, it's a huge disaster, especially when animal defends itself by attacking human, still it's the one to blame for everything!

Is it?

Oh, I never realized...I usually just think "Your own stupid fault for getting to close to an animal...things can be dangerous"

Humans are to complacent , I agree.

Unfortunately the media rarely shares this view.

Look at what happens everytime someone is killed by a Shark in australia, a big bounty is put on the shark which results in the deaths of about twenty of them most of which, if not all, weren't the culprit.

If you're intrested look up Jim Corbett. He was a hunter about 70 years ago, who became a conservationist but still would hunt down genuinely dangerous big cats such as Champawat tiger, that killed about 400 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Corbett_%28hunter%29

People are cruel to animals but when an animal attacks a human, it's a huge disaster, especially when animal defends itself by attacking human, still it's the one to blame for everything!

Is it?

Oh, I never realized...I usually just think "Your own stupid fault for getting to close to an animal...things can be dangerous"

Humans are to complacent , I agree.

The media generally likes to change the story and regularly uses words like 'maul', 'destroy' and 'butchered' to describe something as little (even if it is a nasty experience) as a dog bite. I was bitten by a dog when I was five but despite being that age I could admit I was bothering it so just got a shot and nothing happened to the dog and looking back, I am happy that the dog got to live. Also, they make it one sided they often describe it as the animals fault but if it had an owner, the owner is hardly mentioned, just the breed of animal etc etc. And with the recent fox dragging away baby incident, it is highly likely that the family had fed the fox or encouraged it earlier and also a baby that young and vulnerable should not have been left alone especially since the family lived in an area with a high concentration of foxes.

Stupid humans ,aye?

What beautiful animals. And you kill them for fun, they had a right for a life, they've fought to survive over hundreds upon hundreds of years, fighting against nature and it's challenges, and then you people come in and hide behind your advanced weaponry and destroy them.

Just for fun. When a species kills for entertainment, we should be worried. That's what differentiates us from animals, our conscious awareness that our actions are destroying a life, yet we still do it anyway, for fun.

If you had any appreciation for nature, for our wildlife then you'll put down the gun.

I honestly don't understand how you can sit right next to those animals and maintain that expression on your face.

What beautiful animals. And you kill them for fun, they had a right for a life, they've fought to survive over hundreds upon hundreds of years, fighting against nature and it's challenges, and then you people come in and hide behind your advanced weaponry and destroy them.

Just for fun. When a species kills for entertainment, we should be worried. That's what differentiates us from animals, our conscious awareness that our actions are destroying a life, yet we still do it anyway, for fun.

If you had any appreciation for nature, for our wildlife then you'll put down the gun. I honestly don't understand how you can sit right next to those animals and maintain that expression on your face.

Why should the life of an animal be held in equal regard as the life of a human?

Because to hunt them was an honor and a challenge, it was mentally and physically exhilarating and good fun on top!

Humans taking an anthropocentric view? Goodness me. What justified humans treating animals they way they do to you then?

Join the military and hunt man. Then you're a hunter. Most of the time people are just shooting Bambi.