Is Hunting morally OK or an unnecessary evil?

[MobBoss]

Was Kelly Ann Walz eaten?

You've read as much as I have on it.

Point is, black bears can be far more dangerous animuls that Warpus has tried to sell them as in this thread.

EDIT: to be more accurate of our difference of opinion....

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

You've read as much as I have on it.

Point is, black bears arent the wittle cuddly safe animuls that Warpus has tried to sell them as in this thread.

He did say they can be dangerous.

Oh, they can be dangerous, sure.. But they will not attack humans unless they are desperate.. or, unless you provoke them. (talking about black bears here)

I think Warpus will happily admit that caging them and stepping into a cage with them still in it for cleaning purposes is also not quite void of danger.

But I think 'll let him speak for himself, and get out of the convo right now

 

[MobBoss]

He did say they can be dangerous.

Granted, that he did. And I did mischaracterize his comment in my post so I will apologize for that and edit it forthwith. I still think he fails to recognize precisely how dangerous they are though.

My only point in adding the story was it does pertain to our discussion about black bears specifically.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Butting briefly back in the convo to say that is quite upstanding of you to do so

 

[PeteAtoms]

I didn't read the whole thread, and I don't care too, just gonna weigh in and explain my vote (Option 2).

I think hunting is a-ok as long as you use/eat whatever it is you kill. I think it is a luxury in modernized nations, it's much cheaper and less effort to buy meat from Wal-Mart or the grocery store than go out and killing it yourself.

From what I remember from my hunting safety classes I had to take when I was in middle school (almost 10 years ago), when a hunter buys a tag or purchases other things a portion of it goes to wildlife preservation. So buy spending money to hunt, your helping preserve the species and/or its environment. I don't remember the specifics, but that was what they told us in a nutshell.

Making deer jerky with my dad after he came back from Idaho hunting was one of my favorite memories of being a kid, and it tasted awesome. Oh and we even fed the eyeballs to our dog at the time (waste not want not).

I think poaching is immoral and wrong, or killing things just to have a trophy on the wall is also wrong. We have a few of my dad's deers mounted on our walls, but we also ate those deers.

So, tl:dr -
I think hunting for food is great but poaching is wrong.

 

[Bugfatty300]

From what I remember from my hunting safety classes I had to take when I was in middle school (almost 10 years ago), when a hunter buys a tag or purchases other things a portion of it goes to wildlife preservation. So buy spending money to hunt, your helping preserve the species and/or its environment. I don't remember the specifics, but that was what they told us in a nutshell.

That's true though federal taxes on all firearms and ammunition go to wild life preservation funds which is kind of dumb since a lot of people who buy and use firearms don't hunt. Though it is kind of ironic that the "gun culture" that the left-wing complains so much about is largely funding great things such as preserves, conservation and wild life rescue programs.

 

[Mowque]

Though it is kind of ironic that the "gun culture" that the left-wing complains so much about is largely funding great things such as preserves, conservation and wild life rescue programs.

Not mention that most 'pro-gun' groups support these things for their own reasons.

 

[cardgame]

Not mention that most 'pro-gun' groups support these things for their own reasons.

preserving Yellowstone Nat'l Park is out of their own self-interest?