So you are O.K. with people killing off creatures of a lower order just because they can and with no concern for the future abundance of the creature?
Ugly American Goes Into Hiding After Killing Cecil The Lion
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So you are O.K. with people killing off creatures of a lower order just because they can and with no concern for the future abundance of the creature?
I guess that it's the "Ugly American" in the title that brings them here to chat with their fellows.
I've spent enough time talking with, working with and generally being around Americans that I can honestly say thar I have the tee shirt, as well.
Congratulations. I'm sure Mommy is very proud of you, and you're her special boy.
Nope.
I have absolutely nothing against trophy hunting, if it is controlled and overall benefits not only the community but the species hunted as well........as it often does.
I have a serious problem with idiots rending their garments and wailing over a single lion, in a nation as screwed up as Zimbabwe. Probably none of these morons have ever heard of Zimbabwe before, or of Robert Mugabe, or of torture, repression, clearances, starvation.........
My solution would raise the average IQ in the world, allbeit only slightly..
Somewhat. I've always held a man's best known by the quality of his enemies, and you are, by yourself, dragging my average WAAAAAAY down.
Why do you have a serious problem with that, Colpy? Lions gonna lie, hunters gonna hunt, morons gonna mor. Why are you OK with the first two and not with the last?
And why should "these morons" give a rap about Zimbabwe, Mugabe, or the torture, repression, clearance, and starvation of the most overpopulated and useless species on the planet?
Call it "culling the herd."
None of which justifies taking out your high powered rifle and shooting a lion just because you can. Anyone who gets a thrill from shooting animals for the trophy of bringing back the hide or the head is demented.
I can't argue with that logic. It kind of makes one agree with Gerry's feelings about killing.
We do it because it's a primal connection between man and animals. It is primal. PRIMAL! One man, armed with nothing but his wits, strength, and a rifle he bought with money he made on the stock market or the dentist's chair, and couldn't make himself if his life depended on it. PRIMAL!
PRIMAL STOCK MARKET PORTFOLIO! PRIMAL DENTAL INSURANCE CLAIMS! PRIMAL RIFLE BOUGHT AT PRIMAL GUN STORE WITH PRIMAL PLATINUM AMERICAN EXPRESS! PRIMAL JEEP DRAGGING CARCASS TO LURE LION OFF PROTECTED RESERVE! PRIMAL! PRIMAL! RAR!
You mean like Theodore Roosevelt, or Ernest Hemingway?
Damn, I think I would be proud to be declared demented in company such as this........
Were Roosevelt or Hemingway poachers?
Hemingway committed suicide. Would you be proud to be in his company on that?