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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl
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..
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Cosmic, the type of hunting you're referring to "persistance hunting" is only used by ONE culture today, and they're in Africa where it's easier for them to chase down their food for 8-10 hours while it dies of exhaustion than it is to risk losing a valuable weapon by throwing it. This doesn't make it a "better" way to hunt, in fact the animal suffers quite a bit during this process but the people of that culture respect their sacrafice so their families can eat! However this is not by definition "Natural hunting" in fact, all hunting is natural, hunting is hunting. You seem to humanize and very inhuman thing. Apes use tools to get their termites, is this not natural? How is this any different than us using a tool to hunt something? The edge humans have over other animals is our intellegence, our ability to look at something and figure out a way to solve the problem with a little effort as possible. and to answer this post, yes killing a Deer in your backyard and in the forest are the same to me, as long as the law see it the same way then it shouldn't matter.
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