Is hunting for sport a sadistic practice?

[ArnoldPalmer]

I go Deer Hunting every year, to fill a place in nature that was taken away when my state was developing. We have wolves, foxes, coyotes, etc., and their populations are slowly increasing from what they once were, but their low numbers mean that we have an extreme overpopulation problem with deer. They cost millions in bent fenders, millions in eaten crops, and are absolutely everywhere, all the time. I eat what I kill, I don't feel bad. It's nice to be able to sit up in a tree in the early morning, with a thermos full of coffee, a 125 year-old rifle, and a pack of cigarettes, waiting for the right moment, when this beautiful chest freezer full of meat comes walking by, asking you to send it to deer heaven, with its dopey, vacant eyes, and eternally confused demeanor. It's begging to be deleted with a single, painless, 7.62x54R round. Deer goes to Valhalla, I get a year's supply of meat. Win-win.

 

[El Porko Fako]

Hunting and fishing are A-ok in my book. It can really help the local ecosystem in some cases.

Trophy hunters are a disgrace though. Either utilize the resource or fuck off.

 

[Gentle George]

i will gladly shoot a majestic deer right in the face if it means i get some tasty venison jerky and back-strap out of it later on.

 

[Gentle George]

in a non-shitposty way, there's nothing wrong with hunting as long as you eat what you kill and you're not letting it go to waste.

in some circumstances, hunting for sport can be morally justified if you're killing a pest species. for example, prairie dogs destroy farmland, carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans and pets, and create physical walking hazards with their burrows. they destroy local ecosystems they don't belong to and are all around useless. i will gladly explode as many of those little shits as i can and feel good about it at the end of the day.

 

[Slimy Time]

If you eat what you kill, or are culling/ridding pests, then not an issue. Can't be any worse than something like Bullfighting, having watched some of that live, hunting is tame and not sadistic in comparison (though probably not as entertaining or nail biting to watch).

 

[murgatroid]

I think there is a beautiful significance to hunting in the way it connects man to nature and our history as it has been part of our culture since the dawn of man.

There are sometimes cases where hunting is encouraged when an animal not native to a region is overpopulating and damaging the ecosystem.

However I am opposed to hunting of endangered species if it is unnecessary. It makes me a little sad that the Dodo is gone as well as the Tasmanian Tiger. Of course I don't deny that extinction itself is natural as well as supposedly 99.9% of species that have ever lived on earth are now extinct.

Look at the jaws on those things!

 

[gobsmackedmortician]

I have invasive squirrels eating my fucking wires in my house because some dumb fuck lord in the 1900 imported gray squirrels to his stately gardens , nearly burnt my house down

I will wipe out any of these hairy cunts I see in my garden , as to release them here is a fine of tens of thousands of pounds , and they are edible and I use the tails to make fishing lures

 

[Darksy DePhil]

I think "control hunting" is fine. I remember some story from an anon who lived in an area populated with some exotic species of rabbit, but then his county banned all sort of hunting and years later the rabbit population started dwindling because no one was hunting the predators anymore.