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Hunting and fishing are for psychopaths (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 2 months ago by zero_spelled_with_an_ecks to c/[email protected]

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I'm not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I'm talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they're obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.

Miss me with the "tradition" stuff, it's just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don't tell me it's to eat, like I said, I'm not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don't tell me you're respectful to the animals you kill; I don't believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Lol, bruh you go online and order a fishing license and it shows up in the mail a few days later. It took me under a minute of effort to do it a few months ago.

I know it's hyperbole, but it takes more than ten minutes to get a license because you are have to go to the place that issues them or wait days if it's a mail thing. Relatively cheap is very different from not buying at all. So there's any amount of effort and output of money done in anticipation of the stalking/killing/eviscerating. It's not the relative cost compared to camping that's in question.

Do you eat meat? Because I eat meat, so the days I spent fishing and ate no grocery store meat was a net positive for the world. I don't enjoy it, but I will nut up and do the killing if it makes the world a better place and the alternative was to force someone else to do it, and I did enjoy spending several days out in nature with my friends and family, mostly catching and releasing fish.

Personally I try and eat increasingly vegetarian and prefer canoeing and portaging trips where you spend time in nature and the effort goes into hauling all your shit through somewhere, but it's not easy to do that everywhere, and I eat enough meat that I'm not going to get on my high horse and poo poo a friends' fishing trip if they want to go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't even get a license mailed to me. I just print it out on my printer at home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You don't even need to where I hunt and fish. As long as you can pull it up on your phone, that's good enough.

[+] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks -17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you think not eating meat from a grocery store is a good thing, then you should be asking yourself about why you do it on days you don't fish. Otherwise, it comes off as something like: pickpocketing is bad, so I pat myself on the back every time I don't do it.

"I will...do the killing if it makes the world a better place" sounds like something a villain says while twirling their mustache. You could just not do the killing and make the world a better place. So why not?

Catch and release is kinda odd, too. Stick a hook into something alive, drag it via that hook, suffocate it briefly, and bond over it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you think not eating meat from a grocery store is a good thing, then you should be asking yourself about why you do it on days you don't fish. Otherwise, it comes off as something like: pickpocketing is bad, so I pat myself on the back every time I don't do it.

Like I said, I do. You're the one who said you didn't think consumption was psychopathic. Why do you draw a line?

Either all aspects of meat consumption are inherently psychopathic or none inherently are. And if your definition of psychopathy includes all meat eaters, then maybe it's not the most useful way of defining it.

[+] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks -12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't draw a line, I just wanted to keep it out of this conversation because I'm specifically talking about the extra steps required to kill something personally. Which is why I tried to avoid talking about meat consumption in the post. And you and several other people ignored that. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that behavior from people that think torturing fish is a fun activity. Thanks for being disappointing in a very predictable way. I don't think I have anything further to get out of this conversation with you, so I won't be engaging further.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm specifically talking about the extra steps required to kill something personally. Which is why I tried to avoid talking about meat consumption in the post. And you and several other people ignored that.

Yes, because those extra steps, are just extra steps along the exact same spectrum of disassociation that everyone who eats meat undergoes.

You are trying to draw a line in the sand and then arrange a question around that line, and you can't seem to comprehend it when everyone points out that the line is stupid and doesn't exist anywhere but your own mind.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that behavior from people that think torturing fish is a fun activity.

I see that your reading comprehension is about as strong as your social skills.