Jackass???
Posted by AmericanGreatness 10 years ago to News
I have no issue whatsoever hunting, if you eat what you kill. To kill simply for the sake of the thrill of the kill, you are a JACKASS.
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"Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death."
Terry Goodkind
I also realize I am not the norm in the industry, most hunters hunt for sport. I would bet that all likely hunt for sport today. Those that hunted for any other reason have been driven out by costs.
I have been asked before by other hunters what the biggest buck is I ever bagged. My answer has always been "I do not know or care." to which I get looked at like I am nuts.
I read a biography of Larry H. Miller in which one of his hunting buddies said "As soon as I shot anything the fun ends and the work begins." and I thought that never has a more true statement been uttered. When I did hunt it was more about going out with friends for a few days of camping, hiking around... if I got my buck the first day the work was done and I could just enjoy the rest of it.
If it was a spike or two point, it was smaller, easier to clean and easier to pack out. The whole thing would become jerky as that was the one thing I really enjoyed from Venison anyway and a smaller animal gave me plenty.
While I agree that not everyone observes the same moral compass, that doesn't mean its right or productive. Moral relativism is major contributing factor to the decline in our society today. There are absolute rights and absolute wrongs, whether one wishes to recognize them.
Our freedom, liberty, and property rights require a society that is moral. They are inextricably bound, as the Founding Fathers knew all to well. In fact, Adams says it far more eloquently:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
I do not care what YOU accept or WHO judges me...what the fuck are you even talking about. You do NOT understand the premise of this sight at all...why are you hear.
Christ if it isn't CG it's this guy hounding the crap out of me.
Thanks Scott, again for ignoring this type of behavior in YOUR gulch.
The perfect freedom you seek doesn't exist in the world and never will, because removing the moral compass actually results in loss of freedom.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.-- John Adams
Not everyone shares that moral opinion and while I do, an even greater moral opinion is that people have agency to do what they wish, so long as it is by agreement and consent. Everything indicates this guy paid the permits and had agreement and consent to go hunt a Lion. He did what he had paid to do. Even if we think it wrong, it is right that a person can do so.
I could apply this same logic to Standard Oil in the 1890s. the "price fixing" they were accused of and that was made illegal may have in some cases involved some unethical means, but the argument that it should be governed was wrong then and it would also be wrong today.
When it comes to morality each man or woman must live by their own conscience. The only exception to this is when a person initiates force against another and then its a different story.
This thread and this story have now been blown so far out of proportion its just laughable. The guy paid for permits, did everything he should have and killed the favored animal of the area. Unless there was something done incorrectly it should go away. He likely will not get his mounted trophy Lion he paid to get. Even a Jackass deserves to get what he worked and paid for with his efforts and by agreement. Its to bad he is likely not going to.
You likely find it in your best interest to clean up their shit and enjoy them, good for you. I hope you enjoy them.
I personally think it would be cool to buy a few monitor lizards and have them running around the farm all summer. The winter would likely kill them even if I had a shelter for them, but they would be cool.
I'm not sure if you're simply stirring the pot or truly incapable of understanding my point. I truly hope it's the former.
I can't be any clearer: 1) I have NO issue with killing an animal for food, safety, protection of livestock. 2) I believe it's immoral to kill an animal for nothing more than sport/trophy.
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