• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      11 hours ago

      Aye, I would probably respect a hunter if he killed a grizzly or Buffalo with a handful knives in CQB. Never understood where the “thrill” is in just shooting something from afar. Especially some"thing" that’s inherently more valuable than the hunter.

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        9 hours ago

        I don’t hunt. Don’t care for it, had no possibility to either.

        But, we as a species have had thousands of years where the man went out to hunt for food for his family. This instinct is still there, even though it is no longer necessary. But I’d imagine that is the reason that hunters hunt. It’s an activity we have been wired to do.

        Some of us found other ways to “hunt”, like gaming, or chasing work goals, basically anything that will require you to focus for a while on one single thing with a clearly defined goal to get to. But I can imagine if you are raised in family where hunting is still done, it would be easy to pick it up for yourself.

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          9 hours ago

          Yeah sure I get the thrill of the hunt. What I don’t get is the incredible asymtery we developed in it. Shooting a lion with a sniperrifle makes no sense to me. The lion wouldn’t even know from where it hit him. Of course I exaggerated with the grizzly and the knife, but isn’t the thrill of any sport a fair (in theory) competition? These animals have not the slightest chance. And this slight chance is also just getting away if the hunter missed.

          Shooting an animal would feel to me like fighting a toddler that is also nailed to a chair.

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    10 hours ago

    “The reasons behind the buffalo attack on the trackers remain unclear”.
    This journalist really don’t get the basic correlation of an animal attacking back?

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    17 hours ago

    I misread it and was sad that the millionaire hunter was killed. We should invent millionaire hunters.