Posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2005, at 16:46:38
In reply to Did a Texan do anything to you? (nm) » alexandra_k, posted by AuntieMel on May 17, 2005, at 15:12:19
AuntieMel...
I have been in a bit of a mood lately...
I'm sorry.
I hope you haven't felt offended or put on the spot or anything by the stuff I have said.
I don't mean to accuse you of the views I talk about...
Maybe I should just leave it be.Nope. No texan has done anything to me.
But...
I guess my point is that either internet hunting is fine and hunting is fine or both of them aren't fine.
IMO there isn't a defensible reason why one of these would be acceptable while the other is not.
The main reason given was the idea that IRL hunting puts us in contact with nature.
But IMO it is man asserting ones dominance over nature.
The fact that we have hunted for many years doesn't justify it.
The same way that the fact that we have been racist and sexist for many years doesn't justify those things either.
And with respect to it being a sport...
How is it a fair sport?
Would it be a fair fight if one person had a gun and the other person had to run away?I'm not picking on Texans...
It is just that the issue came up on the news about whether they were going to make internet hunting illegal or not.
It seems that it is legal at present.
Though you aren't allowed to hunt 'native species' or something like that.Ironically... The guy trying to defend it's being outlawed said that the internet hunter may as well just go buy the meat from a supermarket.
I fail to see why hunting IRL is different.I was trying to get at...
The implicit values that our kids pick up on when we teach them that a perfectly acceptable way to think of our relation to nature is to hunt it down with a gun.
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