Selfish by nature, apologetic too
 

Sorry for getting rabid on you Sydney. what got me thinking was if the hippo went away, how much it would screw africa's water supply. I should respect nature a little more. But i don't want to stop hunting or eating meat. I tried veggie once for like a day,mainly because mom didn't have the food with her. By the next day I pounced on some roast like a starving man. I guess some people have to eat meat or go crazy.

WHAT??? You take that radical leap of logic back! My father is a hunter! (explains the poor deer staring at me from the wall right now) And he is not greedy and is absolutely anything but a bastard! My father is a generous man! Just becuase he engages in such a blood sport doesn't mean he's some soul-less bastard that shoots things for the sheer pleasure of watching them die.

Besides, in the modern world today most people (besides hunters) are pleasure seekers, anyway.

I didn't take a radical leap of logic. I reasoned that hunters hunt because it gives them pleasure, giving no second thoughts for the actual being who they're killing. Therefore I must conclude that hunters are greedy pleasure-seekers.

I take back the bastard comment. :)

Statikk: the reasons wolfs are on the rise is because they thrive in minnesota and wisconsion, the only reason they left was because they were hunted out. they killed livestock so people offered rewards for pelts or something like that. and with yellowstone they released 2 wolves and within a coulple of monthes both of them were killed by bounty hunters.

Re: Psycho!!!
 

Pardon me, but it isn't. Have you looked at the oceans recently? Have you breathed the air? Granted, a lot of the problems with the ecosystem aren't caused by hunting, but they're caused by the same selfish attitudes that you are espousing here...

Well, I havn't taken a gander at the oceans because i live in Winsconsin. And no, I don't breathe air, Dan. Thanks for reminding me to do that, etherwise imight have passed out1 anywho. Give me some "wrong" things that happened to the environment and I bet hunters and non hunters alike were involved in these terrible fiascos and travesties. Do not argue the straw man. Also, hunting is conservation and a lot of government funded programs to "save the planet" are being payed for out of the everyday hunters piggy bank. and are you implying that there is something wrong with want. When does want turn into this elusive term known as greed? Because we all shark and want the biggest bang for our bucks.

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Again...i haven't read all the replies. But hunting is in our nature, sure it was for survival reasons but still. I would try it if i wasn't so soft...dunno y...jus' intrigues me. But i mainly download hunting games...or sumat. Its better than killing. But its probably a adrenaline rush of some sort. And Donut...or 'Robin' as it were man wont fight a Tiger wiv their bear hands cos man is clever...of corse ur going to use a gun...no sane person wouldn't!! For one it wouldn't be a fair fight...Tiger having Claws and all. Mainly Hunters do hunt for pleasure...but wouldn't u hunt if u was a big-hairy 35 yr old virgin who has about as much fashion sense as a skinned fish...? Hunters dont get sex...they get animal skin...its there way...like us at Ikea (Thats a joke by the way...im sure Ikea dont hunt animals cos they cant get sex)

stattik: think of it another way. how many people that actually give a ^$@& about the enviroment hunt? and of those that do are they worried about other people or themselves? also while you may like hunting, do you aprove of baiting?