308win
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It is interesting that the no voters with the exception of the poster who hit the wrong selection haven't explained their vote.
Honestly I am appaled that anyone has answered No to the poll.
Strange how two people can have very similar experiences and then compound it by having extremely alike thoughts and life-changing behavior.For that two hours, I imagined the animal suffering because of me. In reality, it died practically immediately, but for me, I lived it as if it HAD suffered.
I vowed I would NEVER take a shot that I wasn't absolutely certain of a clean one-shot kill. That was 20 years ago, and I have never taken a second shot on a deer.
I answered no. Imperative from whom? Just how much suffering constitutes unnecessary? Your poll is phrased in such a way as to skew the results toward the answer you want. I answered no because the real issue is if I feel any obligation to live up to your standards. I don't.
This is an entirely separate issue!Is the hunter that has taken 2 shots at a trotting deer 250 yards out unethical while the uber-sniper shooting tethered deer from a blind the king of ethics?
This is an entirely separate issue!
You missed the point of the question. Methods of "hunting", meaning Fair Chase or fence-enclosed game was not a part of the original question.
TRYING YOUR BEST to dispatch quickly and with as little suffering as possible was the intended question.
Yes, this could get into a "Pissing match" if you try to put words in the original poster's comment that were never intended.
The original poll is essentially asking whether or not you think it's okay to torture animals. It's loaded because choosing "no" is essentially the same_due to the phrasing_as saying you think it's okay to torture animals. I chose no, even though I don't think it's okay to torture animals, because I refuse to be manipulated into giving the answer The Annoyed Man wants us all to give.
Lightsped said:It's not that I am an animal lover or anything like that (I have nothing against them), but I don't see myself as qualified enough to judge whether or not to take another life.
When I started reading this post, I came up with what I thought was the great answer. I got to the bottom of page one only to find that Sindawe had stolen my great answer!Sindawe said:There are a few members of our species I would have no issue with in their suffering a lingering, unpleasant demise.