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Originally Posted by rubecube
I don't even understand why you'd do this to be honest. Do people honestly believe it's some sort of accomplishment to hide in a bush and shoot at defenseless animals?
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There are completely legitimate conservation reasons to support the practice of hunting and humans have a hunter aspect to our nature. I have nothing against responsible hunting practices and people getting satisfaction from hunting if done in sport (i.e., if there is an actual tracking component). For t so be a sport, there should at least be a 50% chance that you will leave empty handed. And of course, only if the animals being hunted have healthy populations.
It's not the fact that he killed an animal that bothers me. It is that he baited the animal and circumvented conservation efforts to do it.
Personally, I have never hunted or even fired a weapon for that matter. In fact, growing up, my parents were so against guns that I wasn't even allowed to play with water guns or point fingers and make "gun sounds". I realize that it was over the top, but they had reasons for it.... but I digress.