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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
I can appreciate arguments from people who hunt for food (especially if its their primary source of food) or even for ecosystem management...as these serve a reasonable purpose.
However, trophy hunting, where the only purpose is ego satisfaction, I just can't put into an ethical category.
Killing for shiggles is technically about as unethical as you can get.
I just don't get the logic of "I think that animal is awesome...so I shall kill it"
If you like the outdoors and wildlife, drop the rifle, grab an SLR camera and take a picture of the bear/deer/hobo that proves that you had it in your crosshairs.
If anything, getting an aesthetically pleasing picture is significantly more challenging than blowing something away
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Same goes with making money. If you make enough money to feed your family and house them in a moderate dwelling, that is enough. If you make more than your family needs and don't donate that money to poor people who are starving to death...that makes you a horrible person. All these people who live in big houses and make millions of dollars just to buy fancy cars and eat fancy foods while others live in poverty is outragous!
See what I did there... Where do you draw the line? People do things for "shiggles" all the time, some people will buy fast cars just to look cool while others are starving in the streets or left homeless due to flooding. This is turning into an ethical battle that is on a slippery slope. Just because you disagree with something, doesn't make it wrong or make the person who does it any less of a person.
Saying someone is disgusting because they trophy hunt is like saying someone is disgusting because they make millions of dollars when they could live off of hundreads.
Grizzley bears are legal to hunt, it's not like he was shooting people. Some people need to calm down before this gets out of hand.