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In reply to the discussion: Had a nice day deer hunting in Maine today. Last day for regular season. A big Maine tradition. [View all]2naSalit
(86,534 posts)how you make so many assumptions while castigating my points about social/cultural ills that could be alleviated by people actually engaging in some actual thought processes and getting up off their butts for reasons other than killing something and feeling that outside of the sporting life or sporting food gathering food that they are acting at a utilitarian level.
Ruffled feathers? I didn't claim that you hunt, what I was saying is that we, as a species, have made some serious mistakes in thinking we can manage the natural world with impunity and then wonder why we have problems with the other species we share the biosphere with all while feeling that we are somehow superior. All that with the added offense of thinking that all the other species who make our lives possible should just suck up and move over because, well we are the champions. But let's just keeping buying plastic shit and burn that fossil fuel and keep hatching out more humans because, hey, we can... with our collective heads in the sand expecting the government to solve the problem during the football game.
I already gave up modern rat race lifestyle, grow what I can and live on less than $10K a year, most of which goes to keeping a small roof over my head. I live among the animals hunters kill and have to accept that some are just feeding their families but I don't buy the argument of culling the herds and trying to keep the burbs safe is a necessity because I know how the F&G management programs work first hand. Want an antiseptic world so you can live in the convenience of being oblivious to reality? Have at it but there is always a price to paid, one way or another. If fluffy gets eaten by something outside the house, well, that's the natural life/death cycle at work. Kids should be taught about nature beyond the XBox cartoonwolrd. Not everyone will or should live forever and the concept that death is only supposed to happen on our terms is foolish at best... who made a law that says everything in and about life should be happy like a birthday party and nobody is supposed to die? Natural selection has a purpose, when it's my turn, I won't have a problem with that.
Believe what you like, I'll stay way over here with thee wolves, bears and all the carnivores who keep the environment (air, water, forest, all the other species) around me healthy and take care whenever I step outside the cabin to ski or hike down to the town without a gun to buy the veggies I can't grow here.
Wanna experience the natural world beyond a pissy little walk in the neighborhood woods? Then get up off your butt and just do it, go for a day or week-long hike, try enjoying it without the killing for whatever reasons agenda. Might learn something about life.