I can never understand the hysteria about killing living things - like vegans, it is putting a value on life forms that are obviously sentient (for the stupids).
We kill life forms to survive.
Be they chickens or fish, carrots or avocados, drinking water (packed with living organisms).
Likewise, WHY trophy hunters kill is unimportant.
If it can generally benefit species (conservation) - why not?

People will answer - for food is fine; for entertainment NOT.
Why not?
Genuinely confused.

JK2006 wrote:
People will answer - for food is fine; for entertainment NOT.
Why not?
Genuinely confused.

I think it is ultimately a moral judgment on those who would find a lion being shot (at no danger to the shooter) as entertainment. But no, one would struggle to define an objective logical difference between killing for food or other reasons. Or killing a fox but not a carrot. Differing degrees of sentience and awareness? Well careful with that one - as it can be supplied to people...

*applied* not supplied.

I bloody hate predictive text.

Wyot wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
People will answer - for food is fine; for entertainment NOT.
Why not?
Genuinely confused.

I think it is ultimately a moral judgment on those who would find a lion being shot (at no danger to the shooter) as entertainment. But no, one would struggle to define an objective logical difference between killing for food or other reasons. Or killing a fox but not a carrot. Differing degrees of sentience and awareness? Well careful with that one - as it can be supplied to people...

It's one of the most ridiculous things Wyot. It's for rich people with no skill or instincts. Anyone can shoot fish in a barrel.

The lions are usually in pens a few acres wide or drugged up.

I like hunting because, I hate all the additional preservatives and salt in supermarket meat. However I do like the venison range in Waitrose.

I like squirrel meat and it's now becoming a mainstream meat.

Surrey is wasted on Wyot, no doubt The Leadbetter's from The Good Life is based on him. Are you from Surbiton?

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...y-squirrel-meat.html

Don't knock The Good Life. I was one of the few in love with BOTH Felicity and Penelope!

And joking apart WYOT - your point is right. We each need a strict and intelligent morality to live by. A friend once told me I was the most moral person he'd ever met - but only to my own morality.And sadly most people are not capable of working out their own morality. So they accept Christianity or Veganism or whatever.

I would never kill any human being UNLESS they were about to kill me or someone else.
But it can happen unintentionally.
I killed Max Clifford.
I didn't mean to or want to but my behaviour led to his death.

Life is never simple.

JK2006 wrote:
Don't knock The Good Life. I was one of the few in love with BOTH Felicity and Penelope!

I have met Felicity at a private function she is both beautiful and charming.

The creators of The Good Life did do their homework on self-sufficiency.

I think they mentioned this book in an episode also. Which I have of course.
www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults..._sp=mbc-_-ats-_-used

Everyone's culture is different, but in mine, it is a mark of respect that you kill the whole animal and use the whole animal, and the cycle continues. It is just life.
Trophy hunting is not part of that cycle.

JK2006 wrote:
And joking apart WYOT - your point is right. We each need a strict and intelligent morality to live by. A friend once told me I was the most moral person he'd ever met - but only to my own morality.And sadly most people are not capable of working out their own morality. So they accept Christianity or Veganism or whatever.

I would never kill any human being UNLESS they were about to kill me or someone else.
But it can happen unintentionally.
I killed Max Clifford.
I didn't mean to or want to but my behaviour led to his death.

Life is never simple.

Yes few work out their own morality and life codes; they think they are doing so, but mainly just adopt, often depending on circumstances.

Max Clifford: I take your point but isn't it more persuasive that he killed himself by unleashing that negative energy for his own profit in the first place? I don't wish to sound too "new age" but negative energy has a habit of acting like a boomerang...

Honey wrote:
Everyone's culture is different, but in mine, it is a mark of respect that you kill the whole animal and use the whole animal, and the cycle continues. It is just life.
Trophy hunting is not part of that cycle.

Yes and what you can't heat makes good fish and dog food.