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Originally posted by godwulf
"Ok' with you, with many others, maybe even with me, if I were hungry enough and there was no other food available...my question, I guess, is "Don't the animal's feelings count for anything?"
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No, I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm sure that if I had to slaughter the animals I eat, then I would be. If I were to even see, first-hand, on a regular basis, how chickens and cows, etc., are killed, I'd probably not be able to eat the result.
You mentioned you are not a vegetarian, Godwulf and you seem very concerned with the feelings of a wild animal killed when hunted, but you don't seem to be concerned with the lives animals lead that are specifically raised for slaughter. It is much more pleasant, I would think, to live a life in the fields and be put to death by an arrow or bullet than to live an entire life in the torturous conditions of a pen, be overfed, and then be killed by the infamous bolt-to-the-skull.
If you're content eating them, then you shouldn't be too concerned with animals being hunted, because I'm quite certain that aside from hunting with a pack of dogs that the life of a farm animal tends to be much worse than the death of a wild one by rifle.
...and then I read your original post. Maybe you are much more concerned with the mentality involved in the enjoyment of death than the actual death of the animal itself? I know that people who enjoy it seriously need to have their head looked at. The "noble" "sport" of foxhunting, for example, enrages me to the point of wanting to seriously hurt people for multiple reasons (and not just the obvious): It is, quite simply, the enjoyment of an extremely brutal, bloody, painful death that is wrapped up in the flag of tradition. And you're right -- any child doing such things would be put under heavy observation, treatment and consuling. Any adult doing such a thing is held in admiration for many. How fucked up is that?
Thanks, Godwulf, now I'm all pissed off, again.