Is eating hunted meat ethical?

[Apathyst]

Curious how you would pick out the ones destined for a miserable death as opposed to the ones who were going to live a happy carefree life to die at a nice ripe old age? Not that I think eating meat is unethical quite to opposite all living things consume other living things to keep being living things themselves. To me it seems the only issue is why you killed an animal. If you kill it for fun and eat the meat in an attempt to justify your actions you have still killed for pleasure the eating doesn’t change that fact. So is killing for pleasure ethical? Whether it’s a horse fly or a horse I don’t see how it could be.

[The Grand Nudger]

Seems like the ethics in that q are bound up more in the way you frame it, than the specifics of killing.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[The Valkyrie]

I hunted through my freezer for bacon this morning.

Is that ethical?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Curious how you would pick out the ones destined for a miserable death as opposed to the ones who were going to live a happy carefree life to die at a nice ripe old age? Not that I think eating meat is unethical quite to opposite all living things consume other living things to keep being living things themselves. To me it seems the only issue is why you killed an animal. If you kill it for fun and eat the meat in an attempt to justify your actions you have still killed for pleasure the eating doesn’t change that fact. So is killing for pleasure ethical? Whether it’s a horse fly or a horse I don’t see how it could be.

I'm not entirely convinced that killing an animal for pleasure is necessarily unethical.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I wouldn't just plain old poison them.

[Apathyst]

I'm not entirely convinced that killing an animal for pleasure is necessarily unethical.

Boru

Fair enough, I’m not entirely sure myself. Would you settle for “It seems distasteful to me to some degree?”

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'm not entirely convinced that killing an animal for pleasure is necessarily unethical.

Boru

Fair enough, I’m not entirely sure myself. Would you settle for “It seems distasteful to me to some degree?”

Of course.  I'll 'settle' for anything you like (I'm nothing if not accommodating).

Boru

[no one]

While death, destruction, and violence comprise a sizeable portion of the beautiful and tumultuous circle of life and my view of this, matters not in the overall grand scheme of it all, I do not consider killing just because you can, the hallmark of a true understanding and intelligent creature.

[The Valkyrie]

Fair enough, I’m not entirely sure myself. Would you settle for “It seems distasteful to me to some degree?”

Of course.  I'll 'settle' for anything you like (I'm nothing if not accommodating).

Boru

That’s not what you said during the strap on incident...