how is trophy hunting not illegal?

[aramism]

random topic but i really don't understand how it is legal to just kill another creature for no purpose other than satisfaction? am i the only who thinks that is backwards evolution and straight up immoral???

at least (i hate saying at least) deer hunters and stuff eat their kill... somehow i doubt anyone eats lions or leopards or elephants...

 

[nialldoran]

it is a tad weird that hunting for sport (not food) is just considered a sport whereas if you shot or kicked you neighbours dog or cat or something youd proby get fined, or somethin for animal cruelty,

but i dont know anything about hunting for sport, do you have to have a license and have a kill limit per year or something?

 

[Jaymz]

Yeah its all wrong

 

[JeffTD]

Helps control overpopulation in a lot of areas.

 

[Rhys Llewellyn]

Absolutely barbaric to kill anything just for the hell of it.

I wouldn't even kill a spider if I had an option to just let it go outside.

Wasps though... I would welcome anyone and everyone to kill a wasp on first sight.

 

[sprack]

All insects die except ladybugs, butterflies and bees.

Hunting pheasant and chucker is sport and tastes great. So is feral hog. I despise trophy hunting. If you kill it you should eat it. Kill as fast and humanely as possible, there's no reason it should suffer.

 

[xFkx]

The overpopulation thing still sounds like a bad excuse, somehow nature tended to regulate these things since forever without trophy hunting.

Anywho, +1 to despising the whole ordeal

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Deer is delicious.

 

[K Odell]

Deer is delicious.

+10000000000

 

[P-E]

All insects die except ladybugs, butterflies and bees.

Hunting pheasant and chucker is sport and tastes great. So is feral hog. I despise trophy hunting. If you kill it you should eat it. Kill as fast and humanely as possible, there's no reason it should suffer.

This, got nothing against hunting for food - as long as the kill is intended to be fast and humane, as mentionned - but just for trophies' sake is downright stupid and should heavily be frowned upon.

 

[Ermz]

Given that we're overpopulating large sections of the planet, I s'pose we should legalize trophy hunting humans too.

I don't really get it either. If they're being killed for food, that's cool, so be it, that moral hit is on nature for making us carnivores. If they're being killed for sport, it's pretty barbaric, no matter what pretense is thrown up as dressing.

I think it's much like the bullfighting thing. Tradition still hasn't wholly given way to reason and civility yet. We still have a lot of holdovers from our barbaric past - religion being a commonly indulged one.

 

[aramism]

somehow i don't think they hunt lions and elephants for population control... just a hunch


big game trophy hunting in most places in africa is generally canned hunts where the animals are kept in a controlled area and live in a game enclosure for the intention of douchebags with hershey kiss sized penises to get their rocks off killing big game.


hunting itself is stupid and barbaric in my opinion but i on a logical and reasonable level understand the logic behind deer hunters and stuff who at least eat them. with elephants and lions and big animals like that they just keep the head as a trophy and discard the body. it's pretty much the highest level of cowardice one can engage in. i would say it's #2 next to child abuse or rape but those are at least illegal and socially accepted as immoral. big game hunting is perfectly legal and disgusting.

 

[aramism]

Given that we're overpopulating large sections of the planet, I s'pose we should legalize trophy hunting humans too.

+10000000000000


somewhat of a separate topic but i agree with this 100000%. humans haven't really grasped the concept of neighborly living. for the most part we suck at managing our responsibility of being the dominant species and managing the earths resources including our fellow animals. not to mention how we are the biggest problem when it comes to over population. somehow i'm not so opposed to legalized human trophy hunting.

 

[TravisW]

If you're shooting whitetail deer in North Dakota, I don't care if you eat it or not. In my mind, it's like insisting that trapping mice and not eating them is immoral.

 

[K Odell]

I mean unfortunately none of these animals give a shit if we die or how we die. I am just gonna leave it at that. I do think some forms of game hunting are pointless and lame, but to each his own. I love venison so I am def not gonna knock killing deer bc that jank is delicious.

 

[Melb_shredder]

I guess there's always legitimate pros and cons... I personally thing if you're going to eat it.. go for it. My step-dad hunts, comes back with a few deer every year.. but we eat it/ share with family and store it, we never EVER waste it. So in that respect, there's no disrespect to the creature. It's keeping me going

But there ARE pests as well.. rabbits and shit.. that is ridiculous in Australia... But I guess this si BIG game hunting we are talking about, for the reward of cock-stroking sake.. so on that, i think it's pretty fucking stupid

 

[Ermz]

Yeah, we're talking about trophy hunting. Implying that there are people with the need to take large caliber, long distance firearms into the wild, find a creature minding its business and attempt to shoot it through the heart simply for the sake of taking a trophy and adding to their tally. I imagine it's the same sort of drive behind turning one's car into a rice-rocket - which on the whole doesn't give me a much more appreciable view of the people in question.

Large-scale pest culling is a different matter entirely. Even so, I do find it ironic on the whole how we deem a certain breed of creature is an overpopulating pest, when we are by far the biggest living danger to the planet.

 

[roy22341]

Wish I could remember where I read/saw it, I want to say it was a National Geographic or PBS documentary. Either way I recall seeing something that said that in Africa, most of the money that is spent big game hunting (getting the licenses especially) goes towards preservation. In many poor African countries, the fact that big game hunters spent the insane amounts of money they do on these licenses is the only reason that the animals are protected at all. I'm not making the argument as to whether its moral or not, personally I'm against it.

 

[JeffTD]

The overpopulation thing still sounds like a bad excuse, somehow nature tended to regulate these things since forever without trophy hunting.

I'm not justifying it or arguing for it, but I know that this worked arguably OK until we overcrowded the place and forced animals into specific regions and subsequently over-populated them.

 

[Uros]

Given that we're overpopulating large sections of the planet, I s'pose we should legalize trophy hunting humans too.
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Aren't various un resolutions exactly that?