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Those are apples and oranges. The first mistake is conflating domesticated animals raised for food with wild elephants hunted for sport.
If you your children were killed rounding up Grizzly bears, that's roughly equivalent. Or perhaps if the kids were in the field shooting the cows with arrows, and a wounded cow turned and charged them. Bull fighting is also a decent analogy - that's an actual fight to the death, and no, I won't shed many tears for the losing bull fighters, rare as them dying in the ring may be.
FWIW, as I've said, I don't have a problem with trophy hunting. I don't understand the appeal, but I do recognize that something like a wild bull elephant has a HUGE value, and those folks struggling to survive can either sell them (effectively) to wealthy trophy hunters who do get a thrill out of it, and maintain a viable population to serve that market, or they'll allow them to be poached, or kill the animals themselves for the tusks and let the carcass rot, etc. So in a lot of ways, it's a matter of how they'll be killed not whether, and by far the best method is controlled, licensed hunters paying big bucks for the privilege. It's sort of odd that we can save a population of rare animals by hunting/killing SOME of them, but that's how it works..... But when a hunter taking on these creatures, accepting the risks, gets killed, sorry but I don't mourn the loss like I would some kid trampled by a wild elephant on her way back from school.
Actually that's the point. Domesticated animals will die as well. When they are being herded up.. which entails being chased.. sometimes roped.. being dragged by the neck, then having a brand burned into.. before being loaded on a truck.. and shipped to a slaughterhouse where they are bonked on the head until dead.
That's the reality of domesticated animals.
That's the irony of the post. "Oh gee.., you shot hunted that animal in a fair chase hunt.. he had the opportunity to escape and you tried to make a humane one shot kill. Shame on you for trying to kill that animal...you should die.. I root for the elephant"
So where is the angst over a beef cow? AS I point out.. if that's the morality at play here.. should the poster not wish that when my kids participate in the round up.. that my kids should be killed as well, since they are essentially giving the animal less of a chance, and are probably making it much more scared and suffer more? If that's the philosophy.. then they should be rooting for the cattle to kill my children.
That's essentially the problem with that logic.