Poll: When is Hunting Acceptable?

[theSovietConnection]

So long as the animal isn't wasted, I'm perfectly fine with it.

 

[Fredrikorex]

It's ok when you do it in a game, for food or something like that.

I play Seal Hunter a lot so I've killed over 200 000 animals in that game xD.
(Link to game site http://sealhunter.se/)

 

[Altorin]

anytime the animal isn't endangered, and as long as said act of hunting will not push them into the endangered classification (IE, more hunting then there is now)

I have NO problem with people hunting as long as their hunting deer or other animals that are not endangered.

I don't do it myself, but more hunting = more meat, more meat = higher supply, higher supply = cheaper meat, cheaper meat = I get to each for cheaper.

Sure, that isn't really the way it works, but in my logical head, the people eating that deer don't need to buy that beef that's in the store.

There are PLENTY of Deer, and around here, where they are in actual towns and cities with real roads, you're doing everyone a favor by not letting them get too numerous.

I say it's acceptable when it's done for food. Hunting animals just to mount their stuffed heads on the wall does not sit right with me.

the vast majority of mounted heads and horns is the result of an animal that was killed and then eaten. I highly doubt many hunters (legitimate hunters, not poachers, which is completely different), would kill an animal, take its head to mount and leave the carcass in the woods.

And really, even IF they did that, if it's not an endangered species, I see no problem with that. Nothing goes to "waste" in nature, and animals die all the time and feed all the other animals lower on the food chain. It's FOOLISH perhaps, that a human could potentially fill its belly with that meat, but I don't have a problem with people doing it per se.

 

[Sampsa]

When done for food or keeping the animal population in order. Environment has its limits and isn't always able to support growin populations.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

I really want to say never under any circumstances is it okay, but I suppose if someone was in a situation where hunting was an important source of food, then it would not have a problem with that. This does not mean, however, that its okay to hunt as long as you eat what you kill, it means if you survive a plane crash and you have no other option, then hunting is acceptable.

 

[kouriichi]

Ive never had a problem with hunting.
Its the way the world worked since animals first walked its surface. ((or swam its oceans))

The circle of friggan life. Animals hunt animals. And humans are technically an animal.

So rationally, theres nothing wrong with it.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

The hunt is sacred, the animals are sacred, if populations are high enough then why not?

 

[Azulito]

There goes my faith in a few users on this forum; there are some real a**holes here...

I have no issue with hunting as long as it's done for food, survival or self defense and not just for enjoyment. The only time I'd take an issue with hunting for food is when it's done inhumanely.

 

[Fensfield]

When it's necessary (which doesn't always mean for food, so, yeah, Other).

 

[Firetaffer]

What's wrong with hunting?
It's not like animals are reluctant to kill other species, so why should we be?
Don't try to turn this on me by saying something like: "We are the more evolved species, we should not lower ourselves to their level."
That's grade A elitism right there.

Totally agree with your beliefs . We are animals too, and we will do whatever we can to hunt them..... well... for food at least. Animals don't kill other Animals for the 'fun of it' or 'sport.'

 

[Bloodastral]

I believe you should be allowed to hunt politicans and civil servants. Also homeless people and disney characters but I guess everyone agrees with that

 

[lionsprey]

What's wrong with hunting?
It's not like animals are reluctant to kill other species, so why should we be?
Don't try to turn this on me by saying something like: "We are the more evolved species, we should not lower ourselves to their level."
That's grade A elitism right there.

Totally agree with your beliefs . We are animals too, and we will do whatever we can to hunt them..... well... for food at least. Animals don't kill other Animals for the 'fun of it' or 'sport.'

Actually some of them do.
Id say hunting is okey if its for food or protecting yourself/pets.

 

[Wing Dairu]

I'd have to say always, as long as it's done in moderation. SOMETHING has to control populations.

 

[Zorg Machine]

As long as it's not endangered it's okay as long as it's for fun, for sport or for food.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I can only condone hunting for food or genuine pest control (no, foxes are not a genuine pest, leave them alone). Doing it for sport just seems like senseless murder.

That said, if there's any fox-hunting posho types out there who feel like going after that bloody Foxy Bingo mascot, I'll happily turn a blind eye just this once.

 

[acosn]

We've been hunting as a human race longer than we've been an established society. It predates recorded history, any modern religion, and every nation on the planet, including the ones that are a stretch like Israel (in the sense that it's the same nation that controlled Jerusalem before it was conquered by the Muslims) and China.


I'd say it's fine to hunt for any reason.

 

[Astoria]

I don't see the appeal of hunting at all. I don't get what satisfaction a person would get from killing something but having said that I'm not about to start protesting to have hunting banned or something.

As long as it isn't an endangered species and people don't go overboard it's ok but only problem is it's not something that can be enforced really.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Hunting isn't the most popular pastime in this day and age but I think a lot of people still do it. Some people seem to condone hunting for food while others don't condone it in any case. So what do you think? When (if ever) do you consider hunting acceptable?

EDIT: Just to clarify I only placed the option to choose hunting only for sport in the name of fairplay. I'm honestly not expecting many people to vote for hunting only for sport.

What about a option like "Only if the animal attacks first?"
Like if your just walking around in the woods with a permit for a stag and a rifle when suddenly a cougar comes out of nowhere and you shoot it. You know? like under certain circumstances.

That;s not hunting. If you mean killing animals you don't have tags for, that's a different issue, poaching, not hunting. but killing an animal that attacks you isn't hunting.

No i mean if its against your survival.
Either it or you.

 

[ecoho]

hunting is not only ethical its ecological. since we as humans have thined out other preditors we must take their place and hunt the animals so they dont starve to death.

so essentially what you're saying is "we've killed the other animals so much, the only solution is to keep killing them, only for fun aswell as food"? we kill HERBIVORES in hunting, as we do in our day to day lives in farms, only in farming we breed animals solely to kill them so it's a pretty stable system. going into the woods and going on a kill frenzy won't have ANY kind of positive outcome

ok ether your

A. Trolling in which case i sugest you stop before you actualy start beleaveing yourself.
or
B. A misinformed fool who doesnt do his reseach and as such doesnt know why hunting is alowed or why there are limits on it.

In short dont assume you know ANYTHING about hunting if you think its the same as farming. Now do i think hunting for sport is bad? yes if your not gonna use the dam animal dont hunt it, now were i live sport hunters usualy sell the meat. i also happen to beleave in fair play while hunting such as giveing an animal a chance.

Edit: BTW if you talking about predetors such as big cats or bears if too many of those are around we have problems with them coming into towns killing people and then starting off a public resentment towrds predetors which would distroy them. Oh and another thing most hunters are some of the greatest conservationists in history. Need an example? Look up Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[Wutaiflea]

Where I'm from originally has a big farming community, so it was pretty strange around the village when the fox hunting ban came in.

Foxes were "vermin", that killed livestock (more than just to eat as well) and were a general nuisance. Hunting them was part of controlling the population, as it is with a lot of other animals in different parts of the world.

As long as its done responsibly and in a humane way (ie. leaving no injured animal to suffer etc), there shouldn't be a problem.