Why do people hunt innocent animals? Is it realy fair? Dont animals have rights too?
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karl m
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yes - im dead against it, cant bear to watch if theres a documentary on tv about primitive tribnes etc, and i know they have to, in order to survive
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Who has more rights: The lion or the zebra?
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Of course they do. People who hurt animals are ignorant.
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The only reason you don't have to kill wild animals is because someone else has done it for you. The only reason other animals have not reached plague proportions and starved humans by eating / destroying our crops is because someone else sorts out these problems for us. Yes, alot of hunting looks unnecessary but I assure you that if those who did it for fun stopped doing it then it would only be a matter of time before it became necessary again.
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Yup, we hear this a lot from the leaf peepers and tourist types when passing through Vermont. Animals; deer, bear, turkeys, are wily enough and well equipped to avoid most human hunters, what nature hasn't given them they learn from repeated exposure. There are very few good hunters. There are lots of people with guns in the woods during hunting season. Please don't mistake one for the other. A hunter spends time researching and honing skills and usually takes game for table not trophy. People with guns kill game rarely, and when they do it's usually by luck or a miscue by the hunted. I agree there's room for interpretation over Sport vs. Hobby but the differentiation should not be based on the tools used by the parties. Game are worthy adversaries and we need some way to even the score. Obviously I hunt avidly for the table and usually take my limit. An issue I have is when people with guns wound a game animal and fail to finish the job, It's unconscionable to me to let an animal suffer, Alike, I disagree with trapping for the same reason, however for some, trapping is a living not a sport.
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and who is it that attempts to give animals "rights"...? People have hunted animals for eons for survival. Man has hunted to control overpopulation, to prevent crop damage and to ensure his own survival as a species. animals are part of the food chain, and even in nature other animals depend on hunting and killing their fellow creatures for their own survival. At some point, the animal rights advocates may figure out a way to get all animals on pellet food and convince everyone on the planet that all animals are just like people only with fur, but until then, there is the matter of survival, population control, nutrition, and so on, as there has been since man was put on this earth.
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I'm not a member of either of those, but I understand why they exist. There are already groups and organizations to protect humans and human rights, so there should be organizations to protect the animals as well. After all, we should protect all living things.
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I do both. I didn't realize I had to choose. You are narrow minded and more than slightly moronic.
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The philosophy is that animals do not have and never will have a voice and cannot protect themselves. Since they are a living creature and also innocent, people tend to want to help them more. Maybe they just love them too.
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They aren't mutually exclusive. I can't speak for all animal rights campaigners but the ones I do know (and I know many including myself) are just as against human rights abuses as well.
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Well, I am for protecting my family, I believe in helping animals, but if it comes to the spotted owl or my family, my family comes first.
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For many, it is just their evil human nature. They have not evolved.
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In some cultures, hunting proves that you are tough and should not be taken lightly. It is not fair, and, sadly, animals that are not dogs or cats do not have rights.
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There's nothing wrong with hunting as long as you eat what you kill, or at least use it to feed others. Unsurprisingly, I'm sure there are plenty of small-dicked thugs who just want to put a bullet through something. But, then, if you'd look at the animal slaughter industry, you'd be horrified. Something to think about if you still eat meat.
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Animals have no rights, other than what we attribute to them. It's the food chain and humans are at the top, as it should be.
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Hunting is the only "sport" I know of where you can be over weight, and out of shape. I don't see the sport in it.
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Of course, innocent animals should have rights. We need to enact laws making it criminal for animals to attack and kill each other. We need to install security camers in all the woods and forests throughout the world to catch animals in the act of attacking each other. Penalties for animal attacks on other animals should be severe.
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Hunting animals for food is the only justification.
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I dont hunt but my boyfriend does. I was a vegetarian for about four years, and then I went back to eating meat, with the exception of not eating pork or beef, for health reasons. Anyways my boyfriend bow hunts and he says he hunts because he grew up with it, and he likes the challenge. I asked him if he liked killing and he said no, but what i want to know how can you hunt and like the challenge but not like killing, isnt it contradicting? Hunting is killing and if you like hunting you like killing. correct? im not trying to be a smart ass or anything I just really want to understand why people get a thrill out of hunting? And I dont mind hunting if it is done for the sole purpose of food, but it gets to me when people do it just for a trophy.
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