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I think it's very important that all of us hunters not only know why hunting is so vital to the environment, but to also be able to articulate our reasons when we are challenged by those who oppose us.

That's why I like forums like this one, because it allows us to share our thoughts with each other, and helps us hone our position through discussion and debate.

It was only a month or so ago that I was challenged by a self-proclaimed environmentalist. This person overheard a conversation I was having with another person where I mentioned that I'd be gone for a week for deer season. She chimed in that while she likes eating meat (hypocrite), she felt that hunting was wrong and couldn't understand why someone would want to kill "harmless" creatures anyway. She basically accused me, and all hunters by generalization, of being of substandard moral character because I'd inflict pain on wild animals, with the inference that all hunters were reckless mass murderers of animals that held no regard for the environment.

Because I've spent a lot of time thinking about these positions, and because I'd prepared myself for just such an encounter, by the time our conversation/debate ended a half hour later I had her positions backed so far into a corner that she had little choice but to agree with most of what I said. But, being the tenacious creatures that most irrational liberal, she just wouldn't let go of the basic emotional argument she had based her position on. It's like a house build on sand, one can wipe out the house, but never get rid of all the sand.

Mike


Gun control means putting the second bullet through the same hole as the first- Ted Nugent
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