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That is not exactly what I was implying. Yeah, the love of the nature is nice and all. When I go hunting I am looking for the biggest fattest doe or buck to harvest for FOOD.

I disagree with you that most hunters kill for the fun of it. Here in Maryland our hunting seasons are long and we have alot of deer. However, about 50% of the deer killed are killed on opening day of the rifle season. It is a one weekend-a-year event for a large majority of hunters. They want to get their one or two deer for the winter because they like the venison and then they stop. If it is so fun, why do they stop when they could hunt from September through February and stack up as many deer as they want? There is nothing stopping them from killing as many as they want.

Hunting is not sick. Killing a deer for its antlers, sawing off the antlers, and leaving the body is sick. Spotlighting deer at night is sick. Breaking the law to kill animals is sick and you are a poacher. But the lawful taking of game and using that resource is not sick.

I agree, all those things you mentioned in your last paragraph are signs of pathology, or cowardness. There's a fine line between killing for fun and gathering food, and rationally separating the two is impossible for some people (please note the responses I get on these threads).
Still, it's fun to hunt and kill, and to feel inflated because one brought home the bacon.