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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Killing animals for pleasure.

Edit: I love how the voting discrepancy here shows the hypocrisy lol

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This is generally illegal and heavily fined as well. Depends on where you live, I guess.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

Also depends on which animals

[–] IoSapsai@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s generally legal and heavily subsidised. See also animal agriculture.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sustenance is different from pleasure

that's not killing for pleasure.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does your country not allow hunting?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hunting isn't purely done for fun, it is also done to harvest meat

[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Absolutely, the biggest nature lovers in my family are all hunters, they enjoy being in the woods, they enjoy seeing animals, they follow the rules to only harvest as much they are allowed and only during the season permitted.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In my country it's mostly done for fun.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So people go out, shoot a deer and just leave it there?

Seems like an extreme waste to me...

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's usually not that much extra effort to take the carcass and bring it to a butcher, so they do that sometimes. But yeah. Often, just leave it.

It's actually not all that bad because we have a lack of natural predators (because we already hunted them almost to extinction) so hunting keeps the deer population from exploding.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok, so they also do make a good deed in adition to just hunting.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

More like helping fix a problem they caused in the first place, but yeah.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Trophy hunting, after all this time, is still legal and big business.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -5 points 3 months ago

Taste pleasure.