Why would you want to go hunting?

"I got raped by my husband today, but I didn't complain because it's tradition".

i did. My point is, I dont want to discuss this superficially. So have a think about the questions and get back to me. Otherwise Ill be wasting my time answering really simple points. Have a go and then we can have a high quality discussion.

This is about the allocation of rights to animals. Go. If animals are worthy of rights so as to protect them from harm then shooting them is wrong. If not then we may do as we please.

"I got raped by my husband today, but I didn't complain because it's tradition".

i did. My point is, I dont want to discuss this superficially. So have a think about the questions and get back to me. Otherwise Ill be wasting my time answering really simple points. Have a go and then we can have a high quality discussion.

This is about the allocation of rights to animals. Go. If animals are worthy of rights so as to protect them from harm then shooting them is wrong. If not then we may do as we please.

Edit: I dont agree with him but check out Tom Regan.

But it is something we can change.
And I'm not an opinionaed loud-mouth, I fully accept the ideas and beliefs of others, I'm not ramming my opinion down peoples throats irl, this is a thread about it. Do you know me in real life? What I'm like in real life?

The most annoying type of people are those who just do something for tradition and never question the past or why. Those are the types of people who would have advocated not giving women suffrage or bear baiting, back in the 1800s.

Just a hint.

It will never change? Like womens suffrage, or imperialism, or fox hunting (banned I believe), like that?

I fully accept it's not just for tradition, people do it for fun, as I believe, I posted in my OP!

I can make an educated guess from your posts, just as you can about me.

I don't do it for tradition, as I said I'm no longer someone who hunts. I've not handled a knife or gun in...I'd say 7 years? I did it because our garden was infested with diseased/starving rabbits. I would do it again in another garden given the same reason.

I wouldn't kill an animal for fun though, if that is what you are getting annoyed about.

People need to hunt, to kill animals, to eat the diet they are supposed to eat. If they get pleasure from it as well, then so be it. The reality is we are always going to eat meat in whatever quantity, and some sick people are going to get kicks from the killing itself.

Part of me thinks that humans are so terrible to each other, it is a bit indulgent to worry about the poor bloody rabbits before the poor bloody children.

what the hell?! i'm sorry but that's a **** example!! in this culture, raping someone isn't a tradition...hunting and shooting is. it's a sport, ffs!

what the hell?! i'm sorry but that's a **** example!! in this culture, raping someone isn't a tradition...hunting and shooting is. it's a sport, ffs!

There's a difference - hunting isn't cruel. It's perfectly justifiable.

why should the fact that people used to do an activity when society was less progressive, less knowledgeable about science, more unjust and generally more ridiculous be a reason to continue that now?

Until 1991, it was completely legally acceptable for a man to rape his wife.

If you eat meat, you don't have the right to an opinion on hunting! Anyway, hunters care more about animals than non hunters.

Hunting ethics;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lynFWF8cfQ

I hunt the hunters, it's a fun past time. Makes them angry, especially when what they're hunting gets away.

Omg it's like you're intentionally missing my point. I don't have a problem with killing to eat, or killing to keep numbers down.
My consistent point throughout this threas has been killing SOLELY for fun.