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Aug 3, 2015
11:12:24am

Busiturtle

Big game hunters are being attacked because they are easy scapegoats

Since few people are personally involved with or benefit from big game hunting it allows a great number of people to express outrage at the activity without (a) personally offending someone they know and (b) having to actually defend their opinion against someone who disagrees.

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Why is there such a backlash against big game hunting?

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:06am

A lot of people care more about animals than other human beings. It's sad.

PharmD

8/3/15 11:11am

This has been going on for years

kimdaddy35

8/3/15 11:33am

Another consequence of the gay agenda

Iman23

8/3/15 12:42pm

You're seeing internet slactivism at its finest.

BYUMizzou

8/3/15 11:12am

Pigeons are a pest

Jericho

8/3/15 11:12am

Big game hunters are being attacked because they are easy scapegoats

Busiturtle

8/3/15 11:12am

well, it is certainly distasteful when you read about it. if this lion was

8/3/15 11:13am

My understanding that it was lured out, but it was still hunted on

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:17am

oh i'm sure it was definitely on unprotected land. but i also bet the guides

8/3/15 11:20am

If you pay that kind of money to a company that promises to pay all permits and

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:34am

i just read from a scientist who studied cecil. he says they lured him out

8/3/15 11:49am

Its not fair sometimes the animals know where they are safe

8/3/15 11:35am

Do you have any idea how much the Elk tags go for around Yellowstone?

Eddie

8/3/15 11:37am

yep. people need to stop confusing what the dentist did that day with hunting

smokymountainrain

8/3/15 11:18am

I doubt the dentist even knew how the lion got there

wapiti

8/3/15 12:16pm

You're really stretching

shakarocks

8/3/15 12:36pm

I'm not sure there is a backlash against big game hunting

smokymountainrain

8/3/15 11:13am

There is a backlash against big game hunters.

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:26am

There are always going to be a few of everything. I hunt big game and

smokymountainrain

8/3/15 11:35am

Still a 1st world problem

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:43am

yes. no doubt about it.

smokymountainrain

8/3/15 11:46am

Because a lot of folks see hunting as unnecessary and cruel

8/3/15 11:22am

Lions are cute and cuddly (in photos) and dentists are... dentists

ColoSpgs

8/3/15 11:23am

penance should be throwing some dentists into a lions den

8/3/15 11:24am

If there's a backlash, it's about "sport" hunting which, really, is kind of

jayriggity

8/3/15 11:24am

That's a 1st world problem

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:30am

I guess I'm not sure why that matters. Westerners often object to conduct

jayriggity

8/3/15 11:39am

The meat often does go to the local tribes

Jericho

8/3/15 11:32am

Wouldn't the tribe just kill it, if it needed the meat?

zuxvon

8/3/15 11:39am

The tribe can't afford to kill it.

Eddie

8/3/15 11:46am

An example of this in Botswana.

cougfanblue

8/3/15 11:55am

No, because they raise cattle for meat... but here's the real truth

Jericho

8/3/15 11:50am

I agree although deer are pests and yet their populations thrive

Busiturtle

8/3/15 12:43pm

That's because here in the US we work on the opposite end of the spectrum

Jericho

8/3/15 12:50pm

What's the point of it? Killing for entertainment?

Ruby Soho

8/3/15 11:30am

There is probably a great deal of evolutionary value.

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:31am

Killing for killing's own sake is kind of distasteful

spinner

8/3/15 11:41am

It seems there is more of a "clever girl" aspect to big game hunting than

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 11:47am

If they want to prove they're smart maybe they should take up scrabble

spinner

8/3/15 11:53am

That's not what I was referring to.

RedlandsCoug

8/3/15 12:31pm

You've got a few things wrong

shakarocks

8/3/15 11:56am

The details were all about this specific case

spinner

8/3/15 12:11pm

Lions have rebounded in many places

shakarocks

8/3/15 12:34pm

If that's all really the case

spinner

8/3/15 12:54pm

the fact that this guy is being prosecuted tells you it wasn't "game management"

8/3/15 1:36pm

You may not have noticed, that but this evolved into a discussion on hunting.

Eddie

8/3/15 1:48pm

ha. i have no idea what you just said. and i'm a hunter.

8/3/15 3:30pm

That's my point: in principal it might be OK, but I worry about abuses

spinner

8/3/15 2:36pm

There are some very smart people who run the conservation efforts

shakarocks

8/3/15 3:08pm

Which is why I worry, particularly in places like Zimbabwe

spinner

8/3/15 3:26pm

Most aren't corrupt

shakarocks

8/3/15 3:56pm

It's Zimbabwe

shakarocks

8/3/15 3:07pm

Of all the things going wrong in the world, I put these incidents in one big

UNLVcougar

8/3/15 12:24pm

Isn't big game hunting "killing because you like to kill" as you stated?

AFCougK9

8/3/15 1:43pm

No, it's not. They eat the meat

Jericho

8/3/15 1:59pm

declining species makes them probably something we shouldn't be hunting a lot

franklyvulgar

8/3/15 5:54pm

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