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Hunting and fishing are for psychopaths (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I'm not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I'm talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they're obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.

Miss me with the "tradition" stuff, it's just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don't tell me it's to eat, like I said, I'm not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don't tell me you're respectful to the animals you kill; I don't believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was more to preemptively stop the people that bring up that they do it for the purposes of consumption. Like you can consume meat without hunting and many people do and just deal with the cognitive dissonance of somebody else doing the killing. Actually going out to hunt is a much more active choice and not something you can do without getting gear, maybe a license, and making time for it.

As for taxidermy, I guess it's just an extension of the planning/killing/cleaning into even more thinking about it, remembering it, celebrating it. Otherwise, it's pretty goth and I've got no issue with it.

There were some Buddhists that wore masks to avoid breathing in insects and accumulating karma (though iirc most sects now say insects don't cause karma that way). But there were also Buddhists warriors that justified killing people as helping the dead get to their next reincarnation faster. But yeah, why do people think cats deserve better treatment than chickens or cows or deer. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No one says this because that's not at all what karma means.