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Sasquatch or as white men call it Bigfoot

Would you kill a Sasquatch

  • BANG. it's dead I'm rich

    Votes: 5 29.4%
  • No way, that would be murder

    Votes: 12 70.6%

  • Total voters
    17
Sasquatch, or as white men call it Bigfoot

This may be something only I think about, we shall see. Lets say you are out deer hunting and see a Sasquatch. There is no season on them and it's not against any law to shoot (murder) one and if you were the first to do so you would be rich and famous. Do you pull the trigger?

Sasquatch-the Native American name

Yeti-the Asian name

Bigfoot-the "white man" name

Question...what is the black, negro, African American or just plain African NAME?

How 'bout the Iranian/Middle Eastern name?
 
I don't believe in Bigfoot, so IMO this is purely a hypothetical question. But if I were to see one, I would treat it the exact same way as I would treat a bear: Back away slowly, give it as much distance as possible, and only shoot it in a clear life-or-death scenario.
 
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Not a political subject. Moving to the philosophical form.
 
i'd take a picture and get something with his DNA on it, even if it's a small amount of hair or a stool sample. then i would turn the sample in so that they could sequence the genome.

however, this will not happen, as with almost everything involving cryptozoology, there is no bigfoot. this is because if there was one bigfoot, there would have to be a stable population of them going back many thousands of years. sure, one animal might go undetected. but a stable population of them in the Pacific Northwest would be detected.

same thing with Nessie. there can't be one plesiosaur living in a lake for eons. there would have to be a family of them.

the only place where cryptozoology works is in the deep ocean. there are all kinds of things down there that we have no idea about.
 
Since we can't seem to catch it (even though we can land a probe on a meteor a zillion miles away) why would you kill it before it lead you to his or her family dwelling?
 
If I'm hallucinating enough to be seeing bigfoot, I should not be operating heavy machinery, let alone firing off rounds.
 
If there really is bigfoot it must be very frustrating for people who see one. I was way out in Hoosier National Forest in the late 70's and actually came very close to running into a pretty big black bear. I have told people about this ever since and no one that know about Indiana wildlife believes me, but I dont care. I seen it.
If I'm hallucinating enough to be seeing bigfoot, I should not be operating heavy machinery, let alone firing off rounds.
 
If there really is bigfoot it must be very frustrating for people who see one. I was way out in Hoosier National Forest in the late 70's and actually came very close to running into a pretty big black bear. I have told people about this ever since and no one that know about Indiana wildlife believes me, but I dont care. I seen it.
Bears make a good comparison to bigfoot in that they are large, often solitary creatures that are at the top of the good chain.

Even if bears are uncommon, we still have a lengthy fossil record dating back millions of years that shows not only their ancestry but their dispersal. There also have to be sufficient numbers at any given time to maintain a breeding population which means that at some point human contact will be largely inevitable.

Bigfoot don't demonstrate either of these qualities. They need numbers to stay alive now and numbers to stay alive then. We find neither.
 
Bears make a good comparison to bigfoot in that they are large, often solitary creatures that are at the top of the good chain.

Even if bears are uncommon, we still have a lengthy fossil record dating back millions of years that shows not only their ancestry but their dispersal. There also have to be sufficient numbers at any given time to maintain a breeding population which means that at some point human contact will be largely inevitable.

Bigfoot don't demonstrate either of these qualities. They need numbers to stay alive now and numbers to stay alive then. We find neither.

That is why if their is such a being it must be highly intelligent. It must ceremoniously take care of its dead
 
It's been hyped as a hoax too much. The ONLY way to prove it exists is to capture or kill one and since "capture" wasn't a poll option...
 
It's been hyped as a hoax too much. The ONLY way to prove it exists is to capture or kill one and since "capture" wasn't a poll option...

Why the need to prove it exist? What does it hurt to just believe? Besides if you could prove it exist those wacky environmentalist would use their existence to shut down every rural industry there is
 
Why the need to prove it exist? What does it hurt to just believe? Besides if you could prove it exist those wacky environmentalist would use their existence to shut down every rural industry there is

Personally, I have no desire to prove or disprove the existence of Sasquatch. That being said, if one walked into my camp and started fixing himself a sandwich I wouldn't hesitate to give him the Clay Allison treatment.
 
Personally, I have no desire to prove or disprove the existence of Sasquatch. That being said, if one walked into my camp and started fixing himself a sandwich I wouldn't hesitate to give him the Clay Allison treatment.

Going back out to work on a particularly stubborn horse right now but I will goggle clay later so I can understand your post
 
That is why if their is such a being it must be highly intelligent. It must ceremoniously take care of its dead
1) Humans bury our dead and we still find remains from hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of years ago, plus ancestry going back hundreds of thousands and millions of years. Even if modern bigfoot did possess technology to render all traces of their current dead completely hidden, there has to have been a period where they had not culturally evolved these practices or physiologically evolved the intelligence to perform them meaning there should be a fossil record of pre-modern bigfoot. There isn't.

2) Assuming again that bigfoot does have the technology to hide its dead, that only accounts for bigfoot deaths that can be attended to. If they are solitary creatures, who performs burial rites? If they live in larger groups that makes them easier to find because the larger the group the greater the resources needed to survive. Humans live in groups and often bury our dead and yet still we've had many that don't get buried because of situations that don't permit it. Yet we find no bigfoot fossils.

3) Burying of the dead suggests a cultural development by bigfoot which usually happens in tandem with other cultural and social progress. If all bigfoot bury their dead, they must have a common culture with each other, which involves interaction, suggests language, religion, etc. These are specialized things that involve coordination and societal structure of a specialized society. For a society of creatures to develop, you'll need lots of bigfoot, lots of resources, and of course be much more visible. It's possible to hide a single creature in a large space, but to hide a population large enough to develop and maintain a culture is much harder.
 
I wouldn't consider it murder, but hell no, I wouldn't kill it, unless it tried to kill me first.
 
Now how does this count as a political poll? Sweet baby Jesus y'all.

Are you saying Sasquatch doesn't have political leanings? How do you know? He could. She could. What are female Sasquatch called, anyway? Sasnatch?
 
NO. Its probably some guy wearing a fur suit.
 
Why the need to prove it exist? What does it hurt to just believe? Besides if you could prove it exist those wacky environmentalist would use their existence to shut down every rural industry there is

My answer to that is it doesn't hurt a thing. There are things in this world and beyond that do not lend themselves to rational sane explanations. If there is no rational sane explanation to most people nowadays then it didn't happen or it doesn't exist. A lot of folks will not even list a category of the unexplained let alone the unknown. Possibilities always exist, perhaps the percentage is very small to minute. But one should never completely close the door.
 
Yeah, if I saw what appeared to be a bigfoot my first thought would be, "What is this idiot in a suit doing?" So no, I wouldn't shoot it.

But let's pretend bigfoots are real and somehow I knew for a fact that it was an actual bigfoot. I still wouldn't shoot. Something that similar to us and intelligent enough to evade detection for this long would constitute a "person" in my book, even if it wasn't homo sapien. I don't kill people for money.
 
My answer to that is it doesn't hurt a thing. There are things in this world and beyond that do not lend themselves to rational sane explanations. If there is no rational sane explanation to most people nowadays then it didn't happen or it doesn't exist. A lot of folks will not even list a category of the unexplained let alone the unknown. Possibilities always exist, perhaps the percentage is very small to minute. But one should never completely close the door.

A large primate has been wandering around in North America for thousands of years and not one body found? In modern times only blurry photos can be taken? We can close the door on Bigfoot without a qualm.
 
A large primate has been wandering around in North America for thousands of years and not one body found? In modern times only blurry photos can be taken? We can close the door on Bigfoot without a qualm.

You can, I still believe in possibilities. I also believe in spirits, Atlantis, and the unknown and the unexplained. I believe we are not alone in the universe, whether we have been visited by some other being from space one can only speculate.

I also think a closed mind is a terrible mind to waste.
 
You can, I still believe in possibilities. I also believe in spirits, Atlantis, and the unknown and the unexplained. I believe we are not alone in the universe, whether we have been visited by some other being from space one can only speculate.

I also think a closed mind is a terrible mind to waste.

I have an open mind, but not so open that my brain falls out.
 
I have an open mind, but not so open that my brain falls out.

Are you one that believes just because there is no evidence that something exists or existed, it doesn't exist and never did? I believe behind every myth and legend there is some truth to it. If there weren't any truth, then the myth or legend would be short lived.
 
Are you one that believes just because there is no evidence that something exists or existed, it doesn't exist and never did? I believe behind every myth and legend there is some truth to it. If there weren't any truth, then the myth or legend would be short lived.

Atlantis? Ever heard of continental drift?
 
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