No potatoes, then?
Hunters like to kill things for fun. It's not tradition or a love of the outdoors ("I love the nature, I want to go kill something"), or some American Indian mysticism--it's killing for fun.
I hunt (upland) because of tradition and a love of the outdoors. I fish for those reasons, too. I'm sure many people hunt because they get a rod over killing or destroying something, but among the people I hunt with, or have met while hunting all over New England, and in Michigan, too, I'd wager my yearly salary that there's not a thrill-killer in the bunch. The kill is the worst part of the evolution, if you ask me.
Nice resonator, by the way.
Oops, I think you saw my resonator by mistake. Thanks though.
If the actual killing was all that bad, you'd never do it. Fact is, hunting, by definition, is killing. There's no semantic way of dancing around that.