Hunting Animals

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='fides quarens intellectum' post='1712811' date='Nov 28 2008, 10:37 AM']i'm a vegetarian, but i'm not against hunting for food. [/quote]




I've just had to deal with people who'll criticize hunters whilst chomping down on a cheeseburger. I'm all like **facepalm**.

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1712815' date='Nov 28 2008, 11:40 AM']


I've just had to deal with people who'll criticize hunters whilst chomping down on a cheeseburger. I'm all like **facepalm**.[/quote]

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1712815' date='Nov 28 2008, 01:40 PM']


I've just had to deal with people who'll criticize hunters whilst chomping down on a cheeseburger. I'm all like **facepalm**.[/quote]


Yeah..... that's lame. I have a brother in law who hunts and they literally use pretty much every part of the animal possible. Put some time into a few days of hunting and you've got a relatively cheap way of providing food for your family. When you have 7 kids like they do it makes a huge difference in what you spend at the grocery store.

And I like The Nuge.

[missionseeker]

I have a friend whose uncle wrote to him that he was "pro-life, just not pro-human life" because there were "too many of us already"

But he can eat deer and such so, let's protect them...

Edited November 28, 2008 by missionseeker

[Maximilianus]

Kind of a touchy subject. Most people don't hunt or don't know anyone that hunts so they don't understand the appeal for hunting or since it's not important to them they dismiss it and deem it unnecessary.

Hunting is an important part of wildlife management and conservation, but if you hunt just to kill animals there's something wrong with you.

[Apotheoun]

I'm all for hunting. That's why God made animals.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1712920' date='Nov 28 2008, 12:33 PM']I'm all for hunting. That's why God made animals.[/quote]

Delicious and nutritious!

[flip]

what would St. Francis do?

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='flip' post='1713105' date='Nov 28 2008, 05:46 PM']what would St. Francis do?[/quote]

He'd pass the mashed potatoes and gravy.

[kafka]

Killing animals is not intrinsically evil since they are not moral agents, and have been placed on earth to serve men. So that covers the second font of morality which analyses the act itself in light of the moral law, therefore the overall act defaults to the first and third fonts of morality namely intention and circumstance (the consequences, and any other factors pertaining to the overall act).

Good intentions could be hunting for the food, for recreation, to control over-population, even hunting for the hides could be moral to use for clothing or even selling and trading provided the good outweighs the bad.

Bad intentions could be killing for the sake of cruelty.

With good intention as long as the good consequences outweigh the bad, the overall act is moral. One bad consequence which could outweigh good ones is killing an instinct animal even with a good intention such as recreation, provided their are other animals not instinct which one could choose to hunt.

Hope that helps.

BTW, my dad shot a large doe today. Yay for him!!!

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='flip' post='1713105' date='Nov 28 2008, 05:46 PM']what would St. Francis do?[/quote]
He would starve at my house.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Paddington' post='1712745' date='Nov 28 2008, 09:13 AM']I'm against bear hunting.

And Ted Nugent's "shoot prarie dog parties."

It's always Ted Nugent with me. [/quote]
+J.M.J.+
you do know how much of a nuisance prairie dogs are in some places, right?

[Tinkerlina]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1712920' date='Nov 28 2008, 03:33 PM']I'm all for hunting. That's why God made animals.[/quote]

I respectfully disagree. We don't know that for sure and in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were instructed to eat fruit, not, as far as we know, animals. God gave us dominion of animals, but I view that as a responsibility to protect our fellow creatures not to use them however we see fit. Animals have many purposes, not just food. -Katie

[Mr_Private_Person]

I hear killing cockroaches isn't sinful, so lets all go out and hunt them.

[img]http://www.tow.com/photogallery/2006/20060411_roaches/images/fullsize/cockroaches.jpg[/img]

I need to dust off my high powered sniper rifle.

Edited November 29, 2008 by Mr_Private_Person

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Tinkerlina' post='1713400' date='Nov 29 2008, 02:13 AM']I respectfully disagree. We don't know that for sure and in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were instructed to eat fruit, not, as far as we know, animals. God gave us dominion of animals, but I view that as a responsibility to protect our fellow creatures not to use them however we see fit. Animals have many purposes, not just food. -Katie[/quote]

That was before the fall, there was no need to hunt then. Jesus would have eaten fish and lamb (Passover, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, etc.), since he was without sin I think we're pretty safe in saying it's not wrong to eat meat.