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To: Savage Beast

If you don't like to hunt, don't hunt. You are well within your rights to control hunting on your property as well.

I would wager that you haven't tried hunting, so you don't understand the appeal. That's OK. More for me!


33 posted on 09/30/2005 6:05:47 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: gridlock
No, you are mistaken.

My father's family, whom I love and admire, are avid hunters--the men, the women, and the children.

My father was not, though he loved to fish, but I never heard him comment one way or another about hunting.

When I was a teenager I hunted with my family. I have killed ducks, and I have been involved with killing deer, boar, racoons, possoms, and other animals, though I never killed one myself. I hated watching them die.

I never liked hunting because I never enjoyed subjecting an animal to pain, terror, and death, and I never understood how anyone could. I still don't.

I have no problem with others who do--including my family members.

I am also a vegetarian--for the same reason, I suppose--but I have no quarrel with those who are not.

Incidentally, a dear friend invited me for dinner, and as a special surprise, she served me venison, that someone had given her. (She forgot that I was a veg.) I ate it. I appreciated her kindness. I would do it again.

38 posted on 09/30/2005 6:27:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Love is the ultimate aphrodisiac.)
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