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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Damn, dude, not every hunter is a deer population manager.

    Hunters do hunting, surgeons try and heal people. In one the killing is the point and in the other the cutting in incidental.

    Avoiding factory farmed animals but still eating animals is something a lot of people say to pat themselves on the back, but I don’t buy it.

    Anyway, I can see this is a really personal thing to you and you’re really upset by it. Don’t think too much about why you get defensive about it, though, or why you have to carve out exceptions to try and make it less creepy.



  • Since you mentioned eating

    No, I specifically tried to avoid it, but go ahead and ignore that 🤦

    Hiking is a thing you can do in nature alone or is groups that doesn’t involve killing, so I don’t understand your point about that making hunting less creepy. And even if most of the hobby isn’t the actual killing, the rest of it is planning, setting up for, fantasizing about, talking about, etc., the killing, so that’s not very convincing either. Like I get that if you have, say, cooking as a hobby that you look up recipes, buy ingredients, and eat, but nobody that has cooking as a hobby buys ingredients to not cook (raw vegans excepted 🥁🥁🛎️).

    And telling me about how different flesh tastes depending on how you kill them sounds pretty creepy.





    • you kill insects so you’re just as bad
    • But I eat it so it’s ethical and respectful (nothing to do with the opinion I expressed)
    • Cats are different than game
    • Population control (nothing to do with the opinion I expressed)

    I’m pushing away the arguments because they don’t actually address my point. They’re bad rhetoric. THEY are not giving valid reasons, it’s the same stuff I’ve heard before and it’s still bad rhetoric, that’s why I’m pushing them away. Pick one and we can go through it if you want.




  • I don’t draw a line, I just wanted to keep it out of this conversation because I’m specifically talking about the extra steps required to kill something personally. Which is why I tried to avoid talking about meat consumption in the post. And you and several other people ignored that. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by that behavior from people that think torturing fish is a fun activity. Thanks for being disappointing in a very predictable way. I don’t think I have anything further to get out of this conversation with you, so I won’t be engaging further.


  • If you think not eating meat from a grocery store is a good thing, then you should be asking yourself about why you do it on days you don’t fish. Otherwise, it comes off as something like: pickpocketing is bad, so I pat myself on the back every time I don’t do it.

    “I will…do the killing if it makes the world a better place” sounds like something a villain says while twirling their mustache. You could just not do the killing and make the world a better place. So why not?

    Catch and release is kinda odd, too. Stick a hook into something alive, drag it via that hook, suffocate it briefly, and bond over it.