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godwulf, just because you can't see the difference between a human and an animal doesn't mean the hunters labor under the same handicap.
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From the number of other hunters and innocent bystanders shot and killed by hunters every year, apparently SOME of them do.
On a more serious note than either that aside or your entire post:
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Killing is an evil, . . in such acts there is a loss of something good, in this case, the life of the animals. And for there ever to be the deliberate taking away of something good, there needs to be a proportionate good that provides an adequate reason for this deliberate loss.
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-Theodore Vitali, "The Ethics of Hunting: Killing as Life-Sustaining," Reason Papers 12 ( 1987)
That's from a pro-hunting statement, in which the author then goes on to justify the killing of wild animals to provide food for human consumption. The author is at least making an attempt to take the discussion out of the realm of the mindless "Hey, they're just animals" way of thinking, in which vanity, macho combat fantasies, family tradition, and virtually any other half-assed justification imaginable is sufficient to offset the evil of killing.
Yes, russotto, we do know they're animals - to assume that because they ARE animals, they are ours to kill without ever having to examine the morality of the deed is a gigantic case of begging the question.