People struggle to understand the pleasure gained from killing wild animals

Personally i understand the need to control animal populations for Ecological reasons. However, the thought of killing something with my own hands makes me feel sick. I feel bad enough when i mow down a rabbit, hare or pheasant

Posted By: Huge Small on March 17th 2010 at 17:29:17

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If I might add my sixpenneth on the mounting of animal heads (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 17, 16:52:06
- BUT there is that very funny bit in Fawlty Towers where the Major thinks the stag's head (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Mar 17, 17:22:18
  - I can see how it might provide comedic value once every three or four years (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 17, 17:26:24
    - Me too. Can't really understand how it can be a sentimental thing either tbh. (n/m) (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Mar 17, 17:29:43
      - It summed it up for me when I saw an interview with Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 17, 17:32:43
- Without wanting to rekindle the veg-off (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 16:57:45
  - I think people find the idea of (General Chat) - jamesward, Mar 17, 17:30:17
    - ridiculous argument at the end there duke (General Chat) - Charles21, Mar 17, 17:51:25
  - if everybody hunted, we'd wipe out the relevant animals (General Chat) - JPM, Mar 17, 17:04:25
    - That really is a strikingly intolerant attitude of other people's pleasures (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 17:15:25
      - People struggle to understand the pleasure gained from killing wild animals (General Chat) - Huge Small, Mar 17, 17:29:17
        
        the thought of killing something with my own hands certainly makes me feel sick (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 17, 17:37:32
      - Agreed. It's a horrible dilemma. (General Chat) - JPM, Mar 17, 17:27:59
        
        Why doesn't it? (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 17:29:17
        
        Who said it was morally defensible to eat meat farmed in a horrible way? (General Chat) - JPM, Mar 17, 17:31:44
        
        But they aren't (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 17:38:30
        
        Yup. Veggie beer, obviously. See you at L'Orient. (n/m) (General Chat) - JPM, Mar 17, 17:47:33
        
        Yeh, meet up. He'll have to stand directly in front of you at all times though (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Mar 17, 17:41:43
        
        come off it, how many hunters in the UK do so to feed themselves? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 17, 17:39:56
        
        i do (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Mar 17, 18:54:26
        
        I don't doubt that it is justifiable in many circumstances (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 17, 19:23:35
        
        He'll continue to obfuscate. He's been doing it all afternoon. (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Mar 17, 17:33:39
    - clearly hasnt got a clue^^^ (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Mar 17, 17:09:20
      - You think if millions of people wanted to hunt, that could be done sustainably? (General Chat) - JPM, Mar 17, 17:11:46
        
        That's because their desire to eat meat is satisfied by consuming industrially farmed (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 17:16:34
        
        Industrial farming (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 17:27:57
- troll (General Chat) - Charles21, Mar 17, 16:55:51
  - no they don't (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 17, 17:25:22

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