cracked butt correctly pointed out:
Predators don't believe in sports or even odds, they use what God gave them to take game. Bears have claws, sharks have teeth and speed, humans have brains. There are still African tribes that hunt Lions with spears, however, they hunt in groups of 10-20 men, they aren't fools and they don't have any false notion of 'sporting' .
Thanks for proving my point.
Predators hunt for food. It's what they do.
The tribes you reference that hunt lions do it out of necessity. The lions are in direct competition with them for food. Lions are vermin to them.
Neither noted example is hunting for for sport as was correctly pointed out.
Killing animals out of necessity, to control over population or for food is a totally correct, proper and often necessary thing to do. If one enjoys that then so much the better for the one doin it.
BUT!Killing animals just for the sake of killing and to take home a reminder is a totally incorrect thing to do. It is against nature. It is an aberation. It is sick!
Lions are big, strong and have claws but the prey they hunt have great hearing and can run very fast. I've read that the lion loses 90% of the time.
Ya wanna hunt for the challenge of it all. Ya wanna hunt because yur a sick bastard that enjoys killing then do it with the same odds of winning that your average predator has. Don't wanna die then take on the vegetarians of nature just like animal predators do but don't use a gun. The only challenge in that is finding the animal. Killing it then becomes a no brainer with a gun.
If the tracking down of one's prey and the thrill of the chase is what one is into then a camera would do as well as a gun would when all is said and done.
Man's at the top of the food chain for a reason - brains. Killing those on lower rungs is altogether right and proper for almost every reason other than because we can. We're at the top - yes - and with that position comes some responsibility. Most recognize that. Some it seems - DON'T.