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To: tejek who wrote (416861)	9/12/2008 7:17:28 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1585677

Injuns ran 1000s of buffaloes over cliffs, then just taking the liver and tongues

To: tejek who wrote (416861)	9/12/2008 7:21:51 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 1585677

You do understand the huge advantage a hunter has against the animal when he is in a plane or truck. To my knowledge, ancient man didn't have those kind of vehicles so wholesale slaughter was not possible like it is today. You mean like setting traps and bludgeoning the trapped animal to death was a "fair" way to fight? Is it fair for a grizley bear to stand at the stream and snatching salmon jumping over an obstacle, swimming upstream? Do you guys ever feel anything for any living creatures? I love animals, they are delicious. And to show my true love for living creatures, I am going to start a colony of bed bugs in my apartment. Joe

To: tejek who wrote (416861)	9/12/2008 7:29:47 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585677

Do you guys ever feel anything for any living creatures? Thoughtful answer: Generally speaking hunters do care and try their best to make one shot kills, but there's always exceptions to every group of people. If anything hunting teaches respect for the animals you harvest - if you go visit a few slaughter houses you might stop eating meat altogether - most people don't give a minutes thought to that burger or chicken sandwich, yet have plenty of time to pontificate on hunting. Smart ass answer: Just recoil baby. :-)

To: tejek who wrote (416861)	9/12/2008 7:30:45 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585677

"Do you guys ever feel anything for any living creatures?" that's why I don't eat vegetables.

To: tejek who wrote (416861)	9/12/2008 8:39:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585677

You do understand the huge advantage a hunter has against the animal when he is in a plane or truck. I understand the revulsion against "canned hunting" or hunting from aircraft or other ways to give the hunger a huge advantage. But while I would be very unlikely to hunt that way (even if I did start hunting) I can't really understand the idea that its not just not as fun, not as challenging, or even distasteful, but is actually seriously immoral. So what if the human has a large advantage, that's the way its supposed to be. We have a large advantage at the slaughterhouse too. Not to many cattle get away at that point. We have a large advantage in hunting even without planes, or shooting animals right after they are released from cages. Firearms are a big advantage all by themselves if you know how to use them, and even many thousands of years ago spears and bows, combined with organization and intelligence (and things like running big game off of cliffs) gave people a huge advantage (and probably resulted in a lot more pain for the game than most modern hunting). If your going to argue that all killing of animals is immoral and go around waving a PETA banner, well than your at least logically consistent. But I don't think that is your opinion.