[warchild9]

A butcher kills dispassionately. A hunter kills for fun, regardless of what they say. If it wasn't fun, they wouldn't go through the expense and bother. It was fun for me, when I hunted, and I would never be able to have been a butcher, because to kill without feeling struck me, even then, as coarse.

[agrace]

A butcher kills dispassionately. A hunter kills for fun, regardless of what they say. If it wasn't fun, they wouldn't go through the expense and bother.

So in other words, my father, while working as a butcher, did so with complete emotional detachment, with no enjoyment or satisfaction whatsoever.

But this same man, my father, when strapping on the guns and heading for the woods to fill our freezer for the winter, did so with eager anticipation and subsequent exultation of the kill.

Thanks for the insight.