Monday, August 3, 2015

Trophy Hunters Paid For It and Will Kill What We Want

The general premise is none of the animals would survive if not for the money fed into big game preserves by hunters.  There would be no money to protect the land, protect against poachers, etc, etc.  Therefore, hunters should be able to shoot whatever they want as they paid for it anyway.  (Duluth News Tribune:  Other View: Those trophy hunters pay for game reserves)


If it were true the interest is animal conservation, the funds to do it would not come with the condition you reserve the right to kill anything.  Animal conservation is through culling the weakest, not the strongest.

Regardless, if it is not the will of the world to fund the game preserves then the animals will die and so goes evolution, negative as it may be.  That hunters contribute funds to prevent that loss does not magically impart righteousness to something which is fundamentally immoral:  killing animals for amusement.


If you want to talk about animal conservation then do it and get that done.

If you want to talk about trophy hunting then do it straight-up.  I like to kill animals and chop off their fuckin' heads to put on my wall.

If you want to mix the two as if they have anything to do with one another, you're shadow dancing with a dictionary which may make you feel clever but you're still a monster who kills for pleasure.

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