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Making the kill is the culmination of the hunt. If you can't pull the trigger and make the kill, you're not hunting you're viewing wildlife.The kill is proof that you can steady your nerves, maintain your control, pull the trigger and take a life, so that others can eat of what you kill
So in Africa the kill is therefore the reason you'd hunt given that you can do everything else involved in hunting with photography or you could pull the trigger of a boresighted laser and simulate your kill. The kill is therefore paramount not the hunt correct ?
It is a recognition of our existence as predators, that we live through the demise of lesser creatures.
Why would you still want to be a predator in the 21st century ?
If you can't make the kill when you have the opportunity, then you're not hunting. Not making the kill is like not playing a sport to win.
So you concede its really about sport/fun. In the context of rare and endangered wildlife in Africa do you not see a moral ambiguity in all this given population numbers of virtually all of the major species are but a fraction of what they were even 50 years ago ?
Now, you explain why it is okay for others to kill animals for your pleasure while you judge those who do their own killing
They are killing them for my food theres a huge difference between that and bagging threatened Rhinos for fun in Africa. But of course you knew that already
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