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fayxx001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Timothy D Fay) wrote:
>Mike Schleeter (mschleeter@mayfield.hp.com) wrote:
>>Opponents of 197 want to manipulate-away your right to choose whether or 
>>not to hunt.
>
>What right do you have to kill animals for fun?


The rights given to me by the laws of our country. 

The same right that animals have to hunt in a completely natural setting.

The right that any human being has to make any personal decision so long 
as it does not affect the rights of other human beings and so long as it 
is not unnecessarily cruel or in humane. It has been pointed out many 
times that a single shot from a modern weapon will dispatch any animal 
more quickly than any natural cause.

But this isn't the point. In fact I DO NOT hunt. But that is my choice 
and is closer to the point.  The real issue, as many have tried to point 
out is this: A prey/predator relationship has existed since the beginning 
of time. What gives YOU the right to exclude those human beings who would 
choose to participate in that relationship from so doing?

Not only that, I really believe you don't understand hunting. As I've 
tried to point out many, many times the fact that an animal is killed is 
nearly incidental from the perspective of the hunter. Of course, it is 
not incidental to the animal, but then neither is it incidental when an 
animal is killed by another animal. It is simply the ways things are and 
that fact alone shows that it is the way things ought to be.  

If you really wish to understand the objective truth about anything you 
will have to stop projecting your emotions into the issue. Hunting is a 
natural process. So long as human beings exercise restraint and 
responsibility who's to say they ought not hunt? 


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