Posted by so on May 18, 2005, at 16:31:03
In reply to Re: Did a Texan do anything to you? » alexandra_k, posted by AuntieMel on May 18, 2005, at 14:45:44
A few salient facts ...
A majority of American voters elected a Texan who advocates hunting humans via the Internet in Afghanistan i.e. missle-armed Predator drones authorized to shoot "a tall man in a Japanese truck." This defense mission is closer to the purposes for which the Internet was created and subsidized than are social activities such as this site.
Also, Internet hunting is conducted entirely on private game preserves. Discharge of an unattended firearm on public lands would involve liablilities few sporting guides could afford.
And, if you have ever visited the killing floor of a slaughter-house, you might not find much difference between point-blank execution of an animal raised in captivity and remote killing of an animal raised in captivity.
If appreciation of nature is the goal, watching an animal die is more appreciative than hiring the job out to be conducted in the privacy of a kill room.
Finally, while laws can be liberally applied by a democratic majority to acheive any goal attainable by the plenary power of elected bodies, personal perceptions of other's appreciation of nature are best tempered by a deliberate effort to understand why others might hold differing opinions, which might not include mocking of regional dialects.
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