I disagree, at least partly. I've shot exactly one real gun, a cheap .22, about 20 times, plinking at old appliances on the far west mesa desert, and that's it, apart from home-made firecracker matchlocks made in high school, but I truly believe that hunting, given the right circumstances, is normal. I've loved reading about guns, and one day I may own one, hopefully a black powder gun. (At my age, I'd better hurry.)
Hunting is just too much a part of human cultures worldwide and in all times - *quod semper et ubique et ab omnibus,* to borrow the Roman Catholic phrase defining right doctrine (I'm *Orthodox,* OK?) not to somehow be normal. Sure, many Buddhists and Jains and upper caste Hindus don't eat meat, but the practice is still so universal that principle still holds. I do despise rich people who engage in comfortable slaughters with animals beaten toward a convenient shooting point -- autumn British upperclass pheasant shoots, Raj shikaris, the idiot dentist who payed thousands to shoot a famous lion; and rednecks with automatics and a fuck you mindset toward killing; but hunting can easily be "normal". I do think that the normal way to hunt is to hunt for food; and to make some sort of sacrifice to re-establish the spiritual equilibrium broken by causing death; after all, life is something we cannot make or own; it is somehow transcendent. The American Indians traditionally did this; Christians already have a bloody sacrifice, but an at least mental acknowledgement that life is something irreducible and that we don't own is clearly necessary. And the arguments about overpopulation are certainly valid too, as is the argument for maintaining the health of the species, and the argument from nature; after all, man isn't the only thing that kills for food. Certainly, for a healthy mature deer to be killed competently by a hunter seems to me to be better than for a cow or what have you to be raised in the horrible and unnatural conditions imposed by industrial farming. On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Kieran J <kjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if I sounds confrontational, but in this day and age, you can't "be > respectful of wildlife" while also participating in a killing spree. Some > of us get through life very well without feeling the need to go on a > violent rampage .. > > > Peace, > > > KJ > > > On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 4:13:15 PM UTC-5, LeahFoy wrote: >> >> I hail from North Dakota (which hereafter shall be referred to as God's >> Country) where deer hunting is also alive and well. There is no school on >> the opener to this day. >> >> Our friendly neighbors to the east in Minnesota are in muzzleloader >> season. One of my best friends just got her for a few days ago after hours >> in a tree, perched on a deer stand out in the cold. It was her first time >> missing the spinal cord, which affords a clean and quick death, but >> fortunately a liver shot is also deadly. She field dressed it herself and >> sent it to be processed at a meat plant as venison to feed her family. >> >> I might also add that hunters are usually very respectful of wildlife and >> great conservationists. I add that because some not from the culture may >> have a different impression when they read this. >> >> Bill - Merry Christmas indeed! TWO new Rivendells?!? I don't know how you >> can stand the excitement. I nearly tipped over last year when we got my >> husband's Clem. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
