... and as a hunter you have in some way to calm your guilty conscience when killing animals.
I enjoy hunting.
And I feel no guilt about hunting at all.
No more guilt than killing a farm beast for meat. I feel guilty or remorse when an animal is not shot cleanly. Mistakes happen in real life.
It's natural for true humans to hunt and kill. Man is a carnivore/omnivore. Carnivores kill other carnivores. It's natural.
Is it machismo to hunt lions? Well few of us are wet lace panty wearing inner city gayboys ....
I haven't hunted lions, leopards or anything other than feral cats. I'd love to though. No canned lions, expensive wild cats only. A PAC hunt is I won the "lottery".
Some people hate anyone who kills an elephant. I got sworn at once for forty five minutes by a drunk surgeon winery owner at a dinner. He was the husband of his wife who owned a business which is a client of my wife. Else I probably would have socked him hard ...
Some don't like shooting a giraffe. They're pretty dumb.
Foxes are another animal no one eats. Yet they are a great animal to hunt. Smart, wiley. Good fun to hunt. And a service to hunt, pests, destructive, especially here.
I hunt dingoes. Have to get a pure bred skin one day.
I'd love to hunt wolves one day.
I have no problem people shooting coyotes as well.
No one eats these.
Btw people DO eat lions.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions for their own actions.
-------------------- John aka NitroX
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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
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"A Sharp spear needs no polish"