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mdiehl -> RE: Can it get any better????? (8/19/2004 1:24:12 AM)
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I don't get this whole American love of hunting. Waxing a duck from 200m with a rifle serves what purpose?
Puh-lease. No one shoots a duck with a rifle. One shoots a duck (in the US anyhow) with a 12 or 10 ga shotgun loaded with steel shot. The purpose is to eat the duck and to enjoy the hunt. One could of course purchase some poultry-farm duck from a supermarket but that's not as flavorful a duck and of course not as fun.
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I worked with a Texan once who was into hunting (top bloke apart from his desire to massacre innocent woodland beings with heavy weaponry), he told me it helped make a man of you and made you feel at one with nature.
Texans. Sheesh. [8|]
For me it's a matter of the simultaneous convergence of several things that I enjoy doing all wound up in one activity. 1. Eating meat. 2. Shooting. 3. Being in the outdoors. And I must admit that there is some attraction to the act of stalking and the adrenalin rush when you line up the shot; I suspect it's a quiet hormonal thing endemic to bipedal primates. Have you ever gone hunting? Don't knock it until you give participant-observation a good-faith effort.
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In my opinion the manly activity of hunting would be all the more manly if the psychos who find killing fun went after some bears in the rockies armed with knives instead of guns.
I agree that if there are psychos who are primarily attracted to the killing aspect it'd be nice if they'd hunt bears with knives. I've never met such a person hunting. When you shoot something that dies instantly, like a dove, it's no more a "yay I killt sumthin" thing than one would expect from swatting a fly. With bigger animals, like deer, I always feel a moment of grief for the animal as an individual. But only for a moment. Then I start thinking about sausage or something and the remorse dissipates most quickly. "Yay I killt sumthin" never really enters the experience.
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