Is hunting for sport a sadistic practice?

[Y2K Baby]

Cuntservative.

Libtard cunt.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

feed a cat every day and it will still hunt, it just doesn't eat what it kills. however, at the same time, we are not cats, we are far more civilized and advanced, for example we don't lick our own assholes. however, the only reason for this might be that we cant reach our tongues to our assholes, but if we could, some of us would maybe lick our own assholes. after all, some of us lick other peoples' assholes.

I forgot where I was going with this but hunting is probably fine.

Hi, Dale!

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I feel like the word "sadistic" has lost a lot of its impact over time. Torturing an animal to death to derive some sort of emotional or sexual release from the action is sadistic. Trying to drop it with one clean shot through the chest isn't sadistic, no matter whether you leave the entire corpse there or not.

 

[Tour of Italy]

On the pro side: Hunting to help with population control means that each deer killed quickly with a bullet is less likely to meet a painful death after wandering into the road. Some counties in my state restrict hunting and have proportionately higher car accidents involving animals, with often fatal results for the humans involved.

Plus there’s something to be said about having the personal responsibility to commit an act of killing for your own meat, rather than outsourcing that discomfort to a company that does it on an industrial scale to miserable captive animals.

On the con side: Every regular hunter knows somebody who will kill anything that moves for no reason, and make a mess of everything as they go.

 

[Takodachi]

it feels more like a waste of meat than anything, not sure if i'd call it sadistic.

 

[inexplicable ethos]

Sport hunting is necessary to effectively cull some invasive species. Shit like Asian carp and feral hogs, any effective reduction in population level is going to produce way more meat than can reasonably be used. There are just way too many of them and not enough people willing to eat 'em. As long as you are trying to kill the animal humanely (almost all hunters do) and you aren't endangering native populations by hunting them, I don't really see the problem with trophy hunting. I would never do it personally because I'm too cheap to pass up free meat, though.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

I'd argue it's more ethical than eating meat any other way. Think:

-The buck we shot? He spent his whole life out in nature as God intended, roaming, eating, screwing, running free as can be on a bajillion acres of land. Then you came and popped him, he died instantly with very little pain, and now we're gonna eat or use every goddamn bit of him so as to honor the kill and ensure nothing as wasted. We've shown due respect for the exchange of life and we're helping fund conservation efforts (many states conservation efforts are funded almost entirely by sport hunting and nonprofits).

-The beef in the supermarket? Hormone fed cows packed in tiny enclosures, given medicated feed their entire lives to get them as big as possible, treated cruelly and inhumanely until the day they're taken from their shit-filled pen to get a bolt in the head and be processed.

If you're not some hippy vegetarian or some shit, hunting is literally the most ethical possible way to consume meat.

 

[Nobunaga]

What if i like to genocide invasive species for shits and giggles?

 

[Carcinogenesis]

As long as you're going to eat the animal you hunt and you do kill the animal quickly, I don't think you should be labelled as cruel. Seal clubbing is seen as cruel but the Inuit people in Canada need to eat as food prices are notoriously high, food transport is difficult up north.

 

[Niggernerd]

It's only fun when the animal hunts back.

 

[Hambubger]

As someone who hunts I say its better for me to do it than a car going 80mph on the highway

 

[Y2K Baby]

I'd argue it's more ethical than eating meat any other way. Think:

-The buck we shot? He spent his whole life out in nature as God intended, roaming, eating, screwing, running free as can be on a bajillion acres of land. Then you came and popped him, he died instantly with very little pain, and now we're gonna eat or use every goddamn bit of him so as to honor the kill and ensure nothing as wasted. We've shown due respect for the exchange of life and we're helping fund conservation efforts (many states conservation efforts are funded almost entirely by sport hunting and nonprofits).

-The beef in the supermarket? Hormone fed cows packed in tiny enclosures, given medicated feed their entire lives to get them as big as possible, treated cruelly and inhumanely until the day they're taken from their shit-filled pen to get a bolt in the head and be processed.

If you're not some hippy vegetarian or some shit, hunting is literally the most ethical possible way to consume meat.

>Thinking there's ethics in anything.

 

[Ashenthorn]

I had a garden from which I fed my family.

A woodchuck showed up and routinely decimated my garden, preventing me from feeding my family.

I had no qualms about shooting said woodchuck in the brain.

 

[Marco Fucko]

Probably, but as someone who feels limited empathy for people let alone animals, I wouldn't mind killing an exotic animal and taking home a trophy.

 

[Franjevina]

It's ok as long as you hunt jews .

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

Hunting sport is heavily tided with local nature\forest keepers and helps to control local animal populations.
So ye, if everything is legal, it's nice.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Having hunted before here are my two cents.
I only hunt for food or pest control.

If it's a case of food I will only ever take what I need and put the whole of the animal to good use including the hide. Not only is there a psychological thrill to hunting and stalking prey, but also the reward of a good kill and the benefits gain afterwards are very satisfactory.

In terms of nuisance hunting, I prefer to keep numbers down than purely eliminate and even in these situations I will utilize as much as possible afterwards.

The only way I'd ever go on a big game hunt (rare) was if the animal was a nuisance animal. IE Mankillers.

That said is it a sadistic practice? No, because that would imply that the hunter gets off on inflicting pain on the animal, where as any hunter worth their salt wants the animal to be eating, pop, dead.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Well I generally nab about 200lbs of deer a year, and that's enough to feed my family for a while. I feel no guilt. Also deer are basically giant rats that require population control since we killed all their natural predators.

Either let me eat them after they die with dignity or let them starve to death. The choice is yours.

 

[Stoneheart]

they should outlaw Hunting with Guns! use a spear or a bow....

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I can kill deer with a bow just fine. But if you do that, you're going to ensure a lot more pain and suffering on the part of the animals.