Trophy Hunting
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RCoate wrote:
Polecats, ferrets, foxes and lots more preditors have been known to hunt and kill for no reason that can be thought of as survival.
True, but it's still instinctive behaviour -- "That's food, so I have to catch it!" -- much like that of domestic cats, which kill lots of small animals, but only eat food from a can, and even dogs, which still chase and chew things that move, even though the killer instinct has been largely bred out of them. That's a long chalk from "I can prove to myself that I'm tough by using a killing machine to murder domesticated animals from a long distance and at no risk to myself". I suppose we should be glad that they do that, rather than prey on women or children, but it's a reasonably safe bet that working for such people would not be fun.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Canned hunting is still a problem in southern Africa. One of the worst incidents that was covered by the press in SA many years ago involved heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard. He'd been on a hunting getaway with some friends in Botswana. Frustrated by the lack of game, they chanced upon a small pride of lion. To satiate their lust for blood (men, that is, not the animals) they decided it would be really funny to tether a cub to a Land Rover and drag it around the bush until it was dead. You have it to give it to them: it took courage to do that.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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I'm not entirely sure. We do have a large surplus of them, and I do occasionally go out for Chinese food...
Will Rogers never met me.