On 7/18/2014 11:47 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>> On Friday, July 18, 2014 9:52:07 AM UTC-7, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> "notbob" <
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>>>>> They sure are glorifying the needless slaughter of wildlife on those
>>>>> shows.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Those shows being? Do you actually know of what you speak or do you
>>>> jes spout tree-hugger platitudes?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cable TV abounds with numerous death shows on many channels. We have
>>> Hunting Alaska. We have the survival shows. We have the "sportsman"
>>> channel. All about slaughtering wildlife for the pure pleasure of
>>> killing.
>>>
>>> And all by a bunch of goons who can afford thousands of dollars in
>>> hunting
>>> gear and tags (when they actually do it legally) and drones and scopes
>>> and
>>> hunting blinds and animal hormones and night vision goggles and infrared
>>> cameras and anything else you need to give yourself every possible
>>> advantage
>>> but claim they are too poor to buy hamburger at the local supermarket so
>>> they have to kill to survive. Yeah right.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, trophy hunting is not the same as subsistence hunting. And
>> subsistence hunting is the only way that thousands of human beings
>> are able to sustain life. Not many vegetables grow above the Arctic Circle
>> Not many Safeways up there, either.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> What "needless slaughter"? Wild pigs have become a plague. We have
>>>> so many deer in my area, you gotta shoo 'em outta the way to get into
>>>> a parking space. It's easier to hit one with yer car than get a
>>>> hunting tag. Flocks of turkeys are walking down the streets of
>>>> small-town America. Bears are running rampant in large urban
>>>> centers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are of course exceptions. I have no issue with killing invasive
>>> species (which we introduced) when they are decimating other wildlife.
>>> But
>>> slaughtering a 800 pound grizzly bear for the pleasure of it is not the
>>> same
>>> thing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> What is "needless" is the power of state game agencies to perpetuate
>>>> themselves into ever growing bureaucracies that survive by legislating
>>>> game laws that allow wild game numbers to explode beyond control.
>>>> Reminds me of that FL case where huge numbers of deer were starving to
>>>> death. Can't issue tags to hunters to reduce the pops, but can
>>>> certainly allow 'em to die by starvation. Needless slaughter, indeed.
>>>
>>
>> This raises the issue that animals left in the state of nature are not
>> going to live forever. And the death from a hunter's bullet might well
>> be more humane than what an apex predator will administer.
>
> That is BS. Hunters do not select dying or weak animals.
He never said they did.
That's your misinterpretation, pansy.
> The whole point
> is to kill the best of the best. Do you want that old deer with bad teeth
> or that huge 12 pointg buck? Either way your 3,000.00 hunting rifle with
> telescopic site will pick it off from 100 yards. What a challenge? Een a
> child can do that.
You sound like someone who has never hunted. I wager windage and
elevation are a few letters to big for your small head.
> Hunting is the reverse of natural selection.
So is most of human life.
Please volunteer to go out naturally.
That measn with rotting teeth dressed ina loincloth or froze solid from
hypothermia.
No modern conveniences, and certainly no socialist health care.
Have fun, bastard.
> Hunters remove from the gene
> pool the very animals nature intended to survive.
Some, but not all.
Hunting is tightly regulated in this country.
> Contrast this to the old
> way when subsistence hunters killed the easiest animals because it was their
> meat they wanted not a trophy. Therefore they were acting with nature and
> extracting animals that were of lesser value to the species' gene pool.
> This made the animals that much stronger and more able to survice.
That's nice, so why did Cro Magnon go extinct then?
> Spare me please the moronic excuses hunter make to deflect from the bloody
> truth about their immoral and sadistic hobby.
Ever been to a commercial meat processing plant, you shrink wrap meat
tray hypocrite?
Fuck off.
>>> BS. We'd not have any wild animals left if somebody didn;' keep modern
>>> day
>>> Daniel Boones under control. Wild "game" "explodes" beyond copntrol
>>> because
>>> we have utterly fucked up the natural world. That 400 pound cougar that
>>> got
>>> killed to make a rug was doing a damned fine job of keeping feral pigs at
>>> nay when it was alive.
>>>
>>
>> The white man brought wild boar to America, for the purpose of improving
>> hunting. They interbred with domestic swine that escaped their pens.
>
> I'd call that a major cluster, wouldn't you?
I'd call it unintended consequences, sort of like viruses and so on.
>>> Hunting is blood sport and any bastard who pretends it is for any other
>>> reason is just a bald faced liar.
>>>
>>
>> Other than hunting, unless you raise your own meat you never have a
>> sense of how your life depends on animals that gave their lives to
>> sustain yours.
>
> We raise animals for food.
We sure do.
> That is their role.
Nice of us to play God, ain't it?
> Wild aninals have their own
> roles and dying so some asshole can pose with a picture of it lying dead
> isn't one of them.
Why not?
The native Americans always celebrated and thanked the animal and the
Great Spirit for the bounty.
Then they used to tools of the day and carved tribute pictographs.
> Kind of like these:
>
>
http://www.rightwingnews.com/special/the-10-hottest-pictures-of-lion-huntress-melissa-bachman/
>
> Check out the 12 point rack on that bimbo. Ask her if she's game and if she
> says yes, shoot her.
So you're fine with killing humans for your political hatred, but not
animals.
I think we know just who and what you are.