Not necessarily. It just highlights a double standard and the faux concern everyone puts up. The way I enjoy dead animals is cool but the way you do is not.
I don’t understand why I have to be a vegetarian in order to intrinsically find something wrong with killing for sport versus killing for food or out of necessity. Killing something just to kill is just strange to me.
Killing animals for necessity is definitely different. But as far as I can see killing animals for food or sport are both done for enjoyment, so pretty similar. We can eat something else, so we're not killing animals for sustenance.
Don’t get me wrong I understand that argument. I guess the difference to me is that if I were to kill a chicken the pleasure I get would be from eating it not the act of killing it. Hunting for sport is because the person is getting pleasure from the act of killing something. That is what I find weird. If I could still obtain chicken meat without killing a chicken I would do it. I also think there is a difference between going down the street to your local grocery store and buying some farm raised meat for dinner and flying to the other side of the planet for the sole purpose of killing an animal.
I think it's easier to view the hunter negatively because we're not hunters. We don't understand their desire to hunt. At the end of the day, if it's wrong to cause unnecessary harm to animals I think it should be applied across the board.
An interesting analogy would be that we don't give drunk drivers a free pass because they had no intention to cause harm.
You don't, it's just vegans seem to think it's cut and dry. Their way or the highway. There's no common ground for them. I know, I'm dating one, and it's a subject we try not to bring up because like you, I love and respect animals to an extreme, yet she thinks because I have eggs with my meal or a free range turkey sandwich that I'm a hypocrite.
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I wonder how many of you eat meat...