• Fives@discuss.online
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    1 day ago

    Hunting animals for trophies and prestige is straight-up fuckery and should be banned everywhere.

    Fuck trophy hunters.

    Sorry you lost your dad.

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      1 day ago

      A lot of those hunts are actually part of conservation efforts to cull older males who are stopping the younger ones from mating, and the money goes towards conservation.

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        23 hours ago

        He could have donated a million dollars to conservation and hired a local conservation officer perform the culling. Instead he acted out his disgusting instinct to murder animals for fun (not for food and not for conservation).

        Local hunters culling deer is fine. It needs to happen since humans have removed predators. People traveling to kill animals is them going out of their way to kill beautiful things for fun.

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          18 hours ago

          People getting their rocks off and pretending that they’re engaging in a selfless pursuit. Keeping pieces of animals they/their handler killed, to remind them of what a good conservationist they are.

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        24 hours ago

        It’s not that the effect can’t be good when properly researched and regulated. It’s that I’ve simply got no respect nor sympathy for anyone who would find trophy hunting to be a fun activity worth paying for. Fuck 'em. If they cared about conservation, they could donate money to that effort. They want to kill animals for sport, that’s their primary motivation.