You won't see me turning my nose up... use up good meat, damn straight. Apparently right now in BC, you don't even need a license... just kill the darn things, they're taking over the place. Down here in the river valley, the mule deer are so thick they're starving themselves out. We have whole herds that live in our neighborhood, kicking over garbage cans, eating the horses' feed, and tearing down bird feeders. Now, two moose have moved in too. Time for a cull! lol.
Was there a ban on hunting them? What caused the population explosion?
You're a brave man herm.
Bear, that's a great apology..........:thumbup:
Thanx Colpy, though I hate the taste of foot, I seem all to able to get both size 15's in there from time to time.
I give the self-defense course at work. Most of the people we get now have never before handled firearms, except in the Federally mandated safety course. You would think that most had considered the essence of the job before they applied, but that is not necessarily so.
One of my first tasks in the course is to make it clear.
I tell them flat out that they may have to draw a weapon and sent little bits of lead smashing into another human being's body, causing that individual intense pain, extreme distress, extensive permanent physical damage, and perhaps death. I tell them it is their duty to themselves, to their family, and to their partner who is there with them to do so without hesitation once the threat is clear. I tell them if they have any doubt they can do so, they don't belong here, and they should leave now.
Yes, people have left.
Obviously, I don't doubt my own ability to do so.
Out here the police are being slowly turned into social workers. It won't be long before cruisers are equipped with couches.
I would only kill another human if I was very hungry.
You lie, Beavers don't eat meat, it makes them gamey.
In life, almost no joke is free of the possibility to make someone think "wow, that was really insensitive given my personal experiences." I wasn't meaning to chastise you.. like I said, it would have been good for a chuckle. Please, no surgery needed. lol.
Thanx Karrie, but it was insensitive, and I am sorry, no matter how humourous my analogy was, that was an horrific event, the timing was way off.
I know I would never join the military. I would love to think that I could never kill...but I do not know. I do not know what it is like to be in the extreme conditions that I feel I would have to be in to get me to a state where it would be possible to kill someone...if that made any sense.
You obviously led a sheltered life, that explains a few things.
We are not talking about something here I wonder about....
Does killing another human include "oneself"? Grammatically "self" is not "another" but is suicide out of the picture in this discussion?
In the church it's a sin, in my heart I agree. Life is a gift, taking a life without purpose is wrong. Suicide is wrong.
Lest it be because ones life will no longer be livable, due to to illness or injury, in cases where people have a DNR or assisted suicides. But to steal ones own life, because they feel they have lost to much to bear, though I understand mental illness(I once voted Liberal exclusively), there is always hope(I now vote Conservation), so I still see it as a weakness and wrong.
