Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 16 2012, 6:02 PM BST
As always, you are right to mock, the very idea that anyone could find the sight of two wealthy, entitled morons grinning as they proudly hold aloft a hacked off elephant tail for piccies in any way weird or sick is absurd and the behaviour of a gormless tit. As ever, you're here to keep us on the right track!
As ever. I suppose you could liken it to photos of hunters and fisherman who hold up wild hares or trout, but that doesn't have a good enough class warfare, anti-elitist vision of hatred to it.
What I find absurd is the attributing of human emotions to a natural part of the food chain. An antelope in Africa doesn't care if it's killed by a white, rich, European or a wild leopard - it's dead either way. If the hunters hold up the tails for a camera snap or start chewing the bloody flesh of it's bones, the antelope is still dead.
Do hunters get a thrill from hunting? I would imagine that any activity that induces adrenalin would give you a thrill of some kind or another. For some it's tracking and taking down big cats, for others it's lining up outside the Apple Store for three days to get the lastest iPad.
Why I'm not against hunting is because it's a basic survival skill - along with learing to swim or building a fire - that we should never lose. Hunting has forged human society, created civilisations, insured our continued existence by spreading us throughout the planet, safeguarded us from starvation during bad harvests and helped us get to the top of the food chain.
Do we really need to hunt in this day and age? Do we need to ride horses? Go rambling? Own pets? Most of the time, we don't even need to know how to swim. Everything is absurd if you think about it.
