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You have literally no idea what goes into deer management, do you?
Have you even ever known anyone who does that, personally?
"All of their time goes to thinking and talking and fantasising about killing".
I daresay all the hunters I know spend less time thinking about the kill than you spend time fantasising about some imaginary hunters filled with murder lust.
My brother is a ~40-year old family man. Mostly he thinks about his kids and his job. On the weekends, they might go and prepare deer feeding areas. You see, upkeep of the population is also a part of deer management.
Only a few weekends of the year do they actually kill anything. Most of the time it's just maintenance, while hiking in nature.
I don't think you realise just how important deer management is, especially in some places. The amount of deer crashes we have would skyrocket without population control. Which would mean animals and people suffering and dying.
Learn to read, maybe? It's not about how you kill them. It's about how they have lived. Which is more moral, eating a thing that didn't have the space to turn around it's whole life, or an animal which lived completely naturally it's whole life?
That's why I avoid industrially farmed animals.
You have an extremely childish, simplistic and twisted view of what deer management actually is.
Just like I said in my last comment, using your logic all plumbers are only plumbers because they have a scat fetish and fantasise about other people's excrement all day, how else would anyone be capable of doing anything like that?
Surgeons? Psychopaths, the lot of them. Must just be itching everyday to get to cut into a living person. Sickening, right, right???? /s
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.
Every single hunter in my country is, as they won't get a hunting license otherwise.
I understand that hunting culture and cultural values aren't the same everywhere, which is something you seem to be having trouble with.
I don't know a single "trophy-hunter", because I'm from a small village in which deer hunting (ie deer management) was big, and "trophy-hunting" was something you'd see Americans doing on TV.
It's a really personal thing to you. You're insulting people, calling them murderers and saying they fantasise about murdering, because you don't understand what you're talking about. You have some sort of a blood sport in your head, when the hunters I know are some of the kindest people I've ever met. And even they sometimes have trouble with killing, believe it or not. My dad was a hunter. He quit around the time I was born, because they accidentally felled the mother of two calves, which isn't allowed. He never hunted anything afterwards, but ate a ton of meat. So the meat he used to get from hunting, free-range, cruelty free, now came from industrialised farms. Do you think that was a change for the better?
This is making you really upset, because you're not used to people challenging your simpleminded philosophy, which breaks down at the slightest push.
I'm the one pointing out these are normal people, you're the one foaming at the mouth about "murder fantasies".
You still refuse to answer the question of whether you think all plumbers constantly imagine scat-porn scenarios? Because that's what your logic would mean.
Telling him is personal to him is hilarious. It’s so clear you are butthurt about having a horrible opinion.
All he’s doing is explaining in a clear and concise tone why your assumptions are wrong.
You clearly cannot handle this, have nothing to refute him, so you attack him. Classic stuff right there.