Proverbs12:10:
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
I think that killing anything without good justification to be highly immoral. I am completely OK 100% with hunting, as long as it follows strict guidelines and considerations.
For example: You can't hunt any kind of animal. Hunting endangered or threatened species is wrong. Hunting just for fun is wrong, or just to try exotic meats is wrong. Trophy hunting is particularly wrong.
If you kill an animal to help control its population, defend yourself or others, or for food with no other available sources, than that's OK. This also includes learning how to hunt animals that are not endangered in any way. That's also OK.
Nature is cruel. Animals hunt and kill each other in far more painful ways than humans hunt animals.
Personally, I have no desire to kill an animal for anything other than food or to cull should numbers get to high, but if people really want to hunt just for the hunt, then fine, but it should be regulated with a fine comb. If you want to hunt and kill a lion, you should have to pay a price that will pay 10 times over what that lion is and that money should be used to breed and increase the numbers of lions.
Basically, if you kill it, replace it and if you kill it while it's endangered, you replace it tenfold.
I can't imagine getting any sort of enjoyment from killing. I know that sometimes, hunting is necessary, for food and such. Also, I understand that overpopulation can lead to disease and starvation among animals. Hunting for the sake of hunting shouldn't be a thing.
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Yes and no. It is cruel however it's also required. Sometimes the population of a species gets wildly out of hand. Geese where a protected species in my country for a while. I must have seen a million of them on my trip home in the farmer fields. There were so many that when they flew up my and my dad got dizzy at the time. And in the distance it looked like a pool of water instead of birds.
So if then a license is given to hunt these geese for a week that restores the balance given our lands are highly managed their natural predator may not be around.
So be it. Leave them alone. No need to kill them.
I think you have to be a sick fuck to kill an animal just for the sport of it. Hunting is in our biological nature, quelled in most of us by modern conveniences, but I can’t think of any good reason to shoot something just to say you did it and stick it’s head on your wall. At least eat the thing. I mean, where’s the line between that and killing another person for fun?
We already have hunting laws on the books. Problem is, it can be hard to police a motive. Here's what I say: unless it's diseased or a threat, kill only what you intend to eat. Never squander wild game. Venison in particular makes for a good eat. To squander it, is disgraceful.
Listen to yourself, you sound like a fuckin tree hugger.
Lets ban zoos because keeping animals in captivity is cruel.
Lets ban meat and dairy because farming animals is cruel.
Lets ban pets because enslaving animals as companions is cruel.
They're animals my dude. They're not capable of higher thought. If a deer felt it was fun to impale you on it's antlers it would do it instantly and never think twice about it in a million years.
You're exposing your evil mentally. Animals feel pain too.
Not when they're dead, now do they? It's not like hunters torture them, they kill them, keep the carcass and move on. Much less painful than the death they would have naturally experienced.
Dying to a disease... freezing to death... being eaten alive by a predator... starving to death... Much worse than getting shot.
And you're a religious man, no? Aren't hunters reuniting these animals with their creator?
No. Animals on this don't inherit eternal life on the new earth to come.
God cares about animals. The animals in this life won't make it to the new earth to come, but their will be animals in the new earth.
I feel like there are much better ways than hunting animals. However, if the meat is being used to be eaten after it's hunted, then it's using our resources appropriately. But overhunting and animal waste should be strongly discouraged. But at the same time there could be a clever way to provide hunters with the value of sport without killing the animals
Well if you hate meat so bad, why not try veganism? Most sport game the animal is usually donated to local communities for them to eat, it's not like it's going to waste, and my sister likes hunting and she brings in a lot of venison which lasts them awhile, and there are hunting seasons due to overpopulation, if you're hunting out of season or without permit it's usually illegal.
I’m sorry but it’s just an animal though. 😂😂 Sides hunters don’t even sadistically torture what they kill. They kill for fun sure but it’s still far more humane an alternative than letting these animals die naturally to predators who eat them alive, or diseases or starvation or weather changes. In short these innocent animals live through lives of struggle and really don’t have any alternative that’s more positive for them.
No matter how you try to justify it, its wrong. If other animals hunt them and you kill them then the other animals suffer hunger because you took away their meal for fun.
@Hispanic-Cool-Guy Exactly. We’re leaving their bodies behind for other animals to eat. We just made the death of the animal less painful, and the survival of another easier. We gave them a free meal that they didn’t even have to work for. 😂
No, many hunt to sell the meat later or have it for themselves because they live independently. Also in some cases the hunt is balancing the ecosystem, if we would stop hunting in some countries hogs or rabbits would have no natural enemy anymore and reproduce until they are a plague
Yes and no, hunting animal’s that are endangered shouldn’t be hunted for
Fun.
But if you want to hunt for fun go hunt in areas with feral hog infestations, Feral hogs destroy everything In it’s path.
wild pigs are a problem for many landowners and agricultural producers. In addition to damaging crops and livestock, wild pigs damage forests and are a threat to native wildlife and the environment.
If it’s purely trophy hunting I’m against that. If you’re hunting with the intention to eat what you kill I’m fine with that as long as it’s 100% legal. Poachers should be locked up a very long time
Hunting for sport should be illegal.
Literally man is the only animal that kills for pleasure or sport.
Every other animal kills for food, survival or I'm some cases dominance in their pack.
God DID give mankind the duty to have dominion over the animals of the planet.
Gen 1:26
But killing "just for sport" isn't really needed.
Yes, but how do you make the sport illegal, and still allow people to hunt/fish as a source of food?
I guess you can't make it illegal then, but pricks that kill animals for fun are truly horrible people. Sick hearts.
You could definitely make it illegal, it would just be a difficult thing to enforce. That's not to say we shouldn't try either. It really does leave a bad taste in my mouth if you kill something in order to take a picture or hang it's head on your wall. The days when that was impressive are far gone.
Its just silly conservatives and their stupidity of killing animals for fun is somehow a good thing. Sick punks.
They should have these hunters stripped naked in a 3 square km fence and in with 10 hungry lions. See how they do.
No, it wasn't illegal before, it shouldn't be now. Honing your hunting skills is always a good thing. Freedom is the main thing to focus on.
Have you ever been deer hunting? I used to go with my dad and his brother when I was a kid, it's really fun.
Yes, what do they do to the animals after?
It should be made illegal, it's awful.
Endangered species yes abundance no
Yeah it should
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