I get the point, but to me this is like the issue of smoking. I often say that the US was a better place when you could smoke anywhere you wanted to: bars, restaurants, at work, on a plane. To be clear: I’m not claiming that smoking is good. But the government regulation that let them control what you can and cannot do got a huge bump when the government cracked down on tobacco. That government control was bad. It was worse than smoking. A world in which you can smoke is a world that lacks tyranny.
Trophy hunting? I’m not in favor of it. But I do not need more government regulation of what we can and cannot do.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. Which is to say: Trophy hunting isn’t the issue. The issue is: do you want to live under tyranny?
That government control was bad. It was worse than smoking.
Seriously ? Hate all forms of hunting but this is such a weak argument I’ll believe it when you show me a smoker that freely enjoys smoking and is sincerely thankful they started (there are a few I’m sure, or at least used to be.)
In short, even disregarding the many other product liability arguments, on the freedom issue alone cigarette smoking itself is less an expression of freedom than the robbery of it.
Total ditto to what you said.
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The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. Which is to say: Trophy hunting isn’t the issue. The issue is: do you want to live under tyranny?
Have a close friend here in Colorado that hunts and processes and eats elk. Excellent. And he doesn’t hunt anything else that he doesn’t eat. Excellent.
But he has 2 dozen trophy animals mounted on his walls in his house and office THAT HE DIDNT HUNT. It is his house, and he can decorate it as he wants. Personally, i’d rather have a full sized replica of Venus de Milo, but my artist wife wouldn’t agree.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
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