(November 23, 2019 at 7:31 pm)Tom Fearnley Wrote:(November 23, 2019 at 7:11 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Not really. Why must you raise topics that are currently in question on active threads?
Is it an odd fetish or something?
THIS is an active topic? REALLY? You wouldn't think.
Why "not really"?
(November 23, 2019 at 7:05 pm)Grandizer Wrote: It's probably not ethical if we think of animals having rights and such. But ultimately, I eat meat because I love meat and feel that I need to eat meat every now and then in order to survive. Whether it's hunted meat or otherwise, it's basically the same from my POV. I don't pretend there's anything ethical much about this.
And letting it die naturally [in the wild] isn't necessarily less ethical than shooting it. Replace [non-human] animal with human and you'll see what I mean.
I don't eat animals because they feel pain EDIT: but hunted animals would feel a lot less pain than if kept in the wild to suffer and die naturally.. I don't think they have the "Right To Live" like humans do. We can decide for them if hunted meat perhaps?
Then again, the argument could be made that hunting is less ethical, because it's disrupting the natural order. Suppose Joe shoots a deer. That deer may have shat out seeds that would have grown into plants which could have provided food, shelter and breeding/nesting areas for dozens of species. Without those plants, hundreds of individual organisms may experience pain and suffering which would otherwise have been avoided.
Have a steak and calm down.
Boru
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