• frazw@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Whenever I read about these hunters getting killed there is always this element in the reporting that it was a tragedy. It wasn’t. It was a glorious victory. Two entered a death match (one unwilling) and one survived. The buffalo defied odds heavily stacked against it and won. The buffalo didn’t ask to be the target of a wanker with a gun who likes killing things for fun. The wanker should also acknowledge that they’re are risks in playing death games. Sorry dude you lost. Buffalo won. Buffalo should get to live like a king as its prize.

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          Another one here. I’ve never gone out in the field unless I plan on cooking what I bring back. If I fight nature and nature wins…so it is.

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              I vote for nature to take care of city dwellers who buy their food instead of gather and grow it themselves like we do. Those who pave over nature for a new strip mall or condos. They’re a huge strain on the earth with their plastic shit and need for new all the time. Not to mention the masses of viable farmland that are consumed for building.

              Yet we are the ones who are hated on and reviled. People are fucked.

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                Oh, you think all the millions of people in cities would be able to do what you think they should do? Millions of people just disperse through the wilds and hunt and forage and grow a little plot of food?

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                    It was a question, seeking clarification, as you seem to think, based on what you wrote, that “city dwellers” should just up and die because they don’t do what you do? So, I was wondering how you think that would work exactly.

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      As long as they don’t go ill the animal later anyway. Big cats that kill peoples seem to get table down and killed in most stories I hear.

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        Good thing humans aren’t known to be vengeful… I hope that buffalo is like 2 countries over by now with a new identity drinking a mai tai.

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        Often the individual animals preying on humans have some sort of health problem or something along the lines, making them desperate and thus continuously dangerous - so it is easy to pretend we don’t do it for vengeance too. There’s also the weird still lingering belief that once an animal has tasted human blood they’ll want more. Humans like to believe we’re not controlled by instinct and make up explanations for why not, but our actions have more truth than our words

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      I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Klingon voices suddenly cried out in agreement and were suddenly honored. I fear know something glorious has happened

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          You’re just salty that Dumbledore got to help rid the world of that evil ring while others flew around in their Iron Man suits!

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            I never saw Harry Potter but I know that’s where Dumbledore is from, so I will assume this is an accurate plot synopsis.

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      Guns are for punks. Fight with your hands or GTFO.

      (I’d PPV that all day. It’s like watching parkour YouTubes, just screaming and damage everywhere.)

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        Human hands are shit compared to what everything else has, at least allow them to use our oldest and arguably best tool. Spear hunting alone still carries a shit tonne of risk unless you are going after fish and even then watch your foot. Id watch one of this dipshits fumble with a spear for 4 minutes before getting ripped apart, it’d be like mixing slapstick with gladiatorial games.

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            While I’m sure you could find some rural folks who would do that happily, after all one of my kinsmen likes to hunt bore with knives before he sells it in his shop. We need to give these profligates fucks the illusion they have a chance, I want them to have hope before they get gored.