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Are we cruel?
paulc:
I decided to look cruel up in a dictionary...
"cru·el
/ˈkro͞o(ə)l/
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adjective
willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it."
Certainly by the first half of definition hunting is cruel, but then that isn't considering the full definition.
Paul
Del the cat:
Nope, not cruel and a sharp arrow is less painful than a bullet (as testified by people who have managed to get themselves shot!)
No chance to hunt with bow and arrow here in the UK, but was a real pleasure to have Pappy take a deer with one of my bows :) a few years back.
I recently got hounded off a facebook group "Primitive Bowmaking" because I thought it was just about bowmaking... I got all sorts of schoolyard abuse from people who insisted I was some sort of vegan snowflake whinger and couldn't understand that I was actually pro-hunting... but wanted the group to stay on track and be about making. I did try to have a reasoned discussion but found it impossible, it saddened me as I've only ever met folk who were great when face to face, and I feel those on the FB group were letting down the whole hunting fraternity.
That's the beauty of this forum... I can come and read and talk about hunting on this area, or stick to the bow making it I want without people jumping to conclusions!
Even this "is it cruel" discussion is courteous.
Kudos to everyone here :)
Del
HH~:
There’s Iron in yer words of life and so in yer words of death. It will be life.
Boot leather is tough on the gut. Do plants feel pain? Either way i kill a lot of those and meat bearers and fur bearers. Gut has no problems with em. When im digging potatoes i often wonder what yhem spuds, tubers are thinkin?
Hedge~
Digital Caveman:
I wonder if a field tip would be effective on small game?
HH~:
FB is the Devil himself presented as digits thru the Net.
FB monkees make the Banderlog look important.
HH~
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