Q: What do you think of hunting and killing animals? And should it be legal?
A: Frankly, I find it rather depraved to hunt and kill animals for the sake of sport.
Don’t misunderstand. Animals don’t have human rights and human beings have a right to kill animals, either for sport or to eat. But I don’t see the psychological value in killing animals for sport. There are far more constructive hobbies available, including but not limited to: sports; hiking; stamp and coin collecting; reading; golfing; gardening — the list is endless.
I can’t understand what a hunter gets out of hunting for sport. It seems to me that it has something to do with the value of power over the more vulnerable, which raises a question about why such a motivation is present in a person.
Raising animals to sell, as done on cattle and chicken farms, is a perfectly legitimate business and I understand the motivation of making a profit. I don’t understand the motivation in loving to kill an animal for the mere sake of it. Most of us would roundly condemn a person who tortures or kills a cat or a dog; why the double standard with a less domesticated animal?
On a political note, I can’t help but notice that the President so beloved of animal rights advocates and other silly liberals — Bill Clinton — openly advocated restricting guns for human self-defense while freely allowing guns for the purpose of hunting, which he personally enjoyed. It’s just another example of how things are incredibly backwards in this society today.
