Lame
March 18th, 2007Should Killing Be Merely a Mouse Click Away?
This is an article about how people hunt over the internet. (Aim the gun with your mouse, kill.)
My opinion: it’s noxious.
And I love how the “traditional” hunter tries to come off as some kind of nature-loving boyscout.
Gary Harpole, an Illinois hunter who figures he has killed 100 deer, most with a bow, said the practice “takes away from what hunting really is all about: getting outdoors, experiencing nature.”
“To me, 90 percent of hunting is the experience, 10 percent is the harvest,” said Harpole, who runs a hunter’s lodge at his rural home. Bagging a buck by computer, he said, “is a lazy way of hunting.”
I will never understand people who try to justify hunting as a sport.
What hunting is all really about: getting outdoors, experiencing nature, and then killing it.
Awesome.
I disagree with your final sentence but do agree that internet hunting bothers me. Hunting in the context of scientific wildlife management plans ensure more animals for everyone - hunters and non-hunter. It also saves a cow from being the winter meat in our freezer. I will never understand how people who enjoy a christmas turkey or roast beef dinner can look at a hunter and say “Shame on you.”
- Bill Anderson @ 19 March 2007Hi Bill,
I’m not sure if it’s clear that I was being sarcastic… I’m a vegetarian myself; while I would never try to impose my opinions on anyone else, personally, I can never understand how someone can enjoy a turkey or roast beef, period.
- pat @ 19 March 2007I dunno dude. It’s kind of hard to have a “relationship” with a dead deer.
- pat @ 16 June 2007