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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I have a real question to ask the hunting community. First let me say that I am not trying to troll or attack the community with this query, I am simply curious as to the attitudes that prevail. I know it's also a diverse group, so I expect a range of answers, and all are valid as far as I'm concerned. I will also state for the record that I have never hunted, fished, nor killed a living creature other than an insect. That is the reason for this question since I have no experience of my own:
What emotions go through you during the moment of a kill? Is there remorse? Satisfaction? Sadness? Exhilaration? Or is there a momentary repression of emotion during the act in order to get the job done as efficiently as possible?
Honestly, this is just curiosity on my part. I imagine that I would feel some sense of accomplishment, but that I would eventually feel some real regret and sadness for taking another conscious animal's life, even if done humanely.
Anyways, I don't want to get into a political debate or anything, I just wanted some perspective from those who currently hunt, or did so in the past. Thanks.
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I'm not a hunter, but I would help out on my uncle's farm when I was a kid during chicken processing. You do feel remorse when you kill them, but you do it as quickly and painlessly as possible. There is no joy in it, but there was no regret either. I find it the same when killing and cleaning a fish those very rare times I catch anything.
I would wager its different for those who kill for sport though.