Ed Ames
Member
As someone who has captured and released rattlesnakes from literally my doorstep, I obviously have a different perspective.
I would have zero problem with you killing a rattlesnake to eat it. That's just being a predator, a practice I agree with. But you don't eat them. I don't get it.
As far as the "venomous" card.... Rattlesnakes kill about 5.5 people per year in the US. TV sets falling off stands kill about 40 per year. Do you shoot all the unsecured TV sets you encounter too? Or if not shoot, have you at least secured your personal TV sets against falling on anyone?
As far as i can tell most of the people who kill snakes are doing so out of some sort of Mammal Pride/Furry First ideology where they would rather live around mice and rats. I guess I lived too long under the shadow of Disneyland because mice just don't seem that special to me.
I would have zero problem with you killing a rattlesnake to eat it. That's just being a predator, a practice I agree with. But you don't eat them. I don't get it.
As far as the "venomous" card.... Rattlesnakes kill about 5.5 people per year in the US. TV sets falling off stands kill about 40 per year. Do you shoot all the unsecured TV sets you encounter too? Or if not shoot, have you at least secured your personal TV sets against falling on anyone?
As far as i can tell most of the people who kill snakes are doing so out of some sort of Mammal Pride/Furry First ideology where they would rather live around mice and rats. I guess I lived too long under the shadow of Disneyland because mice just don't seem that special to me.