[Aria]

Thank you for your politely written comment.

For my part I have absolutely no understanding of why anyone would ever want to kill an animal as beautiful as a leopard or as intelligent as an elephant.

[RummyChick]

This is a silly picture

I would like to know if they went to one of those rich safari places that have the animals put there to easily hunt and kill.

[cport]

So as long as it's ugly or stupid, it is OK to kill? You seem to ignore the reasoned responses for the proper harvesting of these animals to control their populations, Better to die a quick death from the bullet than a slow painful death from starvation.

I can understand the emotional responses that you have, especially when engaged in a flame war, and all of God's creatures are majestic in their own way, but, much like the conservative message of compassion via logic and rational thinking, if you stepped back for a sec and got past the cute factor, you could see the service that is being provided in conservational hunting.

Tie in the fact that I see a lot of wealth envy on an otherwise conservative forum, it's easy to hate on these guys because they can afford to do what many dream of.