buck460XVR
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We are beginning to drift miles from the topic of this thread. Folks claiming that other folks don't have a grip on reality while giving prime examples that they have little grip themselves. Humans mate for life? Really? 50% or more of the "mate for life" contracts(marriage) are torn up long before one of the spouses die. Studies show that even in marriages that last, 40% have experienced infidelity. That tells me that only 25-30% of humans in our type of culture(and that is what mating for life for humans is) truly, "mate for life". Tons of species in the animal kingdom that mate for life, and have a higher success rate than humans. Around here we have beaver, otters, wolves coyotes, eagles, swans, red-tailed hawks, cranes, and pigeons just to name a few. Do we give them more animal rights(or animal welfare) 'cause they mate for life? Love is biological in other animal species and not in humans? Good grief. Mating for life is a evolutionary thing based on the difficulty in raising the young. Animals don't have long term attachments? How many have seen or read about pets that were lost hundreds/thousands of mile from home and found their way back to their owners, by themselves, or seen the videos of pets reunited with previous owners after many years of separation? Wolf packs and dolphin pods are just two examples of family/community structures and many(other than some competitive, breeding age males)stay within them their whole life. For every person that relates to animals as in the "Bambi" movie, there's one that thinks humans are something that have been mystically created to command the rest of the animal kingdom, even tho we all evolved from the same slime at the bottom of the ocean. Had something happened in the environment to even slightly change that process, we may very well be those considered "lesser animals".
No one here(at least me) is saying hunting or eating animals is wrong. I for one think it's part of the evolutionary process. I just think we need to do it in a humane and respectful way. We also need to get real and hunt in a way that does not overtly offend others. While there are a small number of folks that are offended by any hunting/eating of meat, there is a majority of folks that are neutral to hunting, who's neutrality can be changed by experiencing negative type images of hunting, either in person or in social media content. While I'm proud of my hunting heritage, I also try not to piss off other folks, either non-hunters or fellow hunters, by being a slob hunter or exhibiting slob hunting techniques. Odds are, I am just as offended by slob hunters/violators/poachers, as non-hunters. The truth is..... there is and was many false and half truths about Cecil and the way he was taken. Folks on both sides got upset before knowing what really happened. Like many things in life, no one knows the whole/real story but those that were there. But like many things in life we need to learn from the mistakes made on both sides of the fence and move on. It's what all animals do.
No one here(at least me) is saying hunting or eating animals is wrong. I for one think it's part of the evolutionary process. I just think we need to do it in a humane and respectful way. We also need to get real and hunt in a way that does not overtly offend others. While there are a small number of folks that are offended by any hunting/eating of meat, there is a majority of folks that are neutral to hunting, who's neutrality can be changed by experiencing negative type images of hunting, either in person or in social media content. While I'm proud of my hunting heritage, I also try not to piss off other folks, either non-hunters or fellow hunters, by being a slob hunter or exhibiting slob hunting techniques. Odds are, I am just as offended by slob hunters/violators/poachers, as non-hunters. The truth is..... there is and was many false and half truths about Cecil and the way he was taken. Folks on both sides got upset before knowing what really happened. Like many things in life, no one knows the whole/real story but those that were there. But like many things in life we need to learn from the mistakes made on both sides of the fence and move on. It's what all animals do.