Hunting... Animals...

I agree with Raziel for the most part. If you're going to hunt strictly to hang the animal's head on the wall, to boost your ego or whatever, then you're doing it for the wrong reason. If you hunt and eat the animal, then in my book you're not doing anything immoral.

Only thing I disagree with Raziel is...animals really can't fight back if you're standing with a shotgun a 100 feet away from them. Even a bear or rhino really couldn't fight with that, but I guess they would have more of a chance than some other animals. (I honestly don't know how strong bears or rhinos are, but I'm assuming even they can't take two or three shotgun shells.) But there is almost no way in hell that a deer could fight back. It has about as much of a chance as Iraq did in winning the war against America.

So, to conclude, if you want to hunt strictly to boost your ego, like Raziel said, it's wrong, but if you're going to eat it then that's fine by me.

I think that killing an animal for sport is okay. Bears, Moose, and Rhinoceri, like Raziel said, are not completely defenseless. They can easily charge us and kill us. And as for killing them, i frown upon killing for fun, but it is okay with me. You should really only kill it to eat it and not for a trophy.

A good analogy for this is Diablo 2. You don't go around with your Level 99 and kill a Level 30 and take their ear and flaunt it around, cuz it's retarded. You should actually take a hunting knife like Eddie_Perez said and kill it with your bare hands. Even if we have the technology, you are killing for superiority, and it leaves them defenseless. It is like NKing in Diablo 2, It ain't fair. If I would go hunting again, it would be to eat the meat, not kill for fun. Hell if you like to shoot a gun go to a shooting range or something.

I have heard about this guy who hunts for men on this island in a short story. He gives the dude a knife, a handgun, and a sack of food. He then runs off and if he can evade the other guy for 3 days, he gets to go home with gold. The other guy uses bloodhound and a rifle. Not to fair cuz of the range, but thats life for you.