Oh hey, another person who has never been hunting and has no idea what it's all about talking about how morally superior they are to hunters and how hunters are all blood thirsty psycopaths...
Just gonna leave this here.
If anything, this is a testament to
how the monetization of the environment
has perverted our relationship with and
within it. The only reason those bills were
enacted in the first place is because there
was no previous regulations on hunting.
So people were just going trigger happy,
killing at their will to the point that wildlife
needed to be protected. The settlers here
had no idea how to work in harmony with
the land.. there was no interest in long
term health. So we needed these rules
to keep the human animals in check.
Now, the same rules are being used to
justify something that shouldn't have to be
justified... killing animals for our own food
may be antiquated to some extent, but
never the less, it is our right. But it also
our obligation to go about it consciously.
Skulls of bison:
The fact that the idea of "conservation" is
unequivocally married to the act of killing
shows that something is wrong.
There are natural diseases that occur
within species population that controls it
naturally if they get out of hand. Farmers
can tell you this about rabbits. Not to
mention natural predators. But Rogan
nuthuggers will stick to their guns about
the dangers of "rewilding"... how wolves
and cougars are monsters that need to
be feared and controlled with a firm hand...
But that's a whole separate discussion.
My opinion, is that there's already enough
shitty ass, littering, xanax'd humans out
there anyways. It might humble a few of
them to have to see a cougar every now
and then to remind them of their own
mortality and connection with this land.
And if they're too xanax'd out, that they
aren't fast enough to get away or shoot
it before it gets its throat ripped out...
then i'm ok with that too. The earth>people
I understand not everyone feels the same.
But I also believe that most people can
agree that there needs to be a paradigm
shift in the way we approach and connect
with nature. Especially as we move forward
