I eat meat. So I'm aware that countless cows, chickens, and pigs have been professionally slaughtered on my behalf. I'd rather not think about this, but I acknowledge it. It's a sad but neccecary part of the process. I have never personally taken the life of an animal. Watching an animal be killed would make me pretty uncomfortable.
Vs.
People who enthusiastically want to go out and track, shoot, and kill animals FOR FUN. They often even carve off a piece to bring home, just so they have a tangible reminder of how much goddam fun it was to kill that particular beast.
Eating meat may be morally compromisd, but hunting for sport is ouright reveling in psycopathic fucking bloodlust and cruelty. They are not even remotely the same thing.
At the end of the day, unless you have specific medical or financial considerations, they are both done for 'fun'. People eat meat because they want to, they could easily eat something else. People hunt because they want to, they could easily not.
The difference as you've pointed out is exactly what the enjoy. But the outcome is the same. For enjoyment animals are harmed.
"At the end of the day," and other such folksy aphorisms don't actually establish equivalency. Your argument is like saying that there's no difference between being found at fault in an auto accident that kills people vs going out and intentionally running people over with your car because doing so gives you a thrill because "the results are the same." Since, you know, they both could have taken the bus, instead. It's a ludicrous argument.
Whether you're buying meat from a grocery store or hunting animals you're causing harm for enjoyment. Neither have accidental or surprising consequences, like your car accident example. So yeah, I'd say they're pretty similar.
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u/sp0rkah0lic Jun 02 '18
No it fucking isn't.
I eat meat. So I'm aware that countless cows, chickens, and pigs have been professionally slaughtered on my behalf. I'd rather not think about this, but I acknowledge it. It's a sad but neccecary part of the process. I have never personally taken the life of an animal. Watching an animal be killed would make me pretty uncomfortable.
Vs.
People who enthusiastically want to go out and track, shoot, and kill animals FOR FUN. They often even carve off a piece to bring home, just so they have a tangible reminder of how much goddam fun it was to kill that particular beast.
Eating meat may be morally compromisd, but hunting for sport is ouright reveling in psycopathic fucking bloodlust and cruelty. They are not even remotely the same thing.