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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl
I've pointed this out already, but humans are capable of bringing down large animals without ranged weapons and with little more than a sharp stick or rock.
You try to say that humans have always used our ingenuity to come up with easier ways to kill prey, but then try to romanticize hunting by saying it's different to hunt the animals out in "real nature." If I hunt the docile, human fed deer in my backyard, that's just another way of "using my ingenuity" to more easily kill prey. There is no practical difference between that sort of hunting, and traipsing around the woods with a crossbow. They're just different strategies.
The problem is that we eradicated all of the predators. In many areas, we wiped out the wolves, panthers and jaguars that would have naturally preyed on those deer.
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I don't know how to explain what I'm saying an better. Whether a hunter uses a gun, crossbow, bow, rock or a pointy stick, it's still just a tool to get the job done. It's a method used by a predator to catch prey.
As for overpopulation, there are more deer in the US now than hundreds of years ago. Between predator populations declining, or being wiped out for that matter, and the agricultural, we've given herbivores the necessary tools to flourish. Which is why every state has a dept of wildlife, who employees people to study animal populations and determine the number of animals to be culled each year to maintain a healthy population.
And to davidvb, saying that allowing a ten year old boy to kill a deer using a crossbow is wrong, could you please explain why?
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