(08-04-2015, 09:01 PM)LPC Wrote: I will quote this piece from the article you cited above, Catherine:
" 'When you hunt an animal, everybody just thinks we’re cold-hearted killers, and it’s not that,' she told host Carson Daly. 'There is a connection with the animal. Just because we hunt them doesn’t mean we don’t have a respect for them'."
Only a human could think up such illogical reasoning. How can one truly respect an animal and then kill it as a trophy (not even for food)? The best way to respect an animal is to respect its right to live.
That smacks of a certain type of affectation I call the "Pseudo-Indigenous-Person" rationalisation. Many people who state that they "have great respect for the hunted animal" or "pray for the hunted animal", are maybe just using a lot of 'new-age-speak' to make their acts seem less cruel and unnecessary. People who say things like that have absolutely no idea what it was like to live as a real "Indigenous person" maybe hundreds of years ago. This kind of thing is truly fake.
Maybe they think their affected middle-class words really align them with indigenous hunters of the past who had no choice but to hunt, for food, clothing and shelter? For a start, such people would never have hunted an animal for any reason other than survival necessity, and would not have killed any species they couldn't use for the above purposes.
You are right LPC. If they really respected an animal then they would either know or intuit that the animal has a Soul and a life-purpose (just as we have) and would treat it accordingly.
