Hunt Back Country

Hunting a Sign of Dangerous Behavior to come?

If animal cruelty is a sign of pyschopathic behavior and hunting for fun is animal cruelty, is hunting not a sign of pyschopathic behavior?

What I mean is that most modern pyschology teaches that one distinct characteristic of dangerous criminals is abuse to animals. Logically, hunting down and killing an innocent animal for fun is construed as animal cruelty....so is it not safe to say that people who hunt are more likely, according to pyschology, to commit dangerous crimes?

And for that matter, is the fact that the government has not banned hunting (not out of neccessity) evidence that it supports pathelogical behavior of its citizens?
I'm not saying whether or not I agree with this, I'm just pointing out the facts.

Public Comments

1. hunting is good for our society. Kids get trained young with guns and are ready to impose the imperialistic will of Bush. But at the same time it preserves the constitution if the Bush Co gets out of hand. As far as animal cruelty goes I would love to see the study that actually shows that the animal killed with a solid heartlung shot suffers any more than if a pack of wolves slowly tears it to bits!!! the same brain damaged thought process believes we should reintroduce natural predators or allow the animals to starve.

2. I get what your asking, don't care for hunting myself. My husband hunted as a kid, loves and misses it. My son cannot imagine killing an innocent animal, and my daughter would not eat the fish she caught in a lake. I think it is personal choice, whether you like it or not, but to keep the animal population from starving due to not having control, such as hunting, well, that might be more inhumane.

3. the problem with this idea is an overall assumption that people hunt to find enjoyment in abusing innocent animals.

I never fished a fish because I had fun torturing the fish, I fished fish because I wanted fish to eat, to show my skill at tricking a fish, and my skill at struggling to fight a fish out of the water.

I have never fished a fish because I had some sort of unhealthy desire to see a fish suffer on my hook. If I have ever had an unhealthy desire to inflict pain, it has always been through videogames by killing aliens and demons on various first person shooter videogames.

What I'm trying to say is:

just because you kill an animal for sport doesn't mean you particularly enjoy its death (I mean hunting is about killing the animal, not torturing it). Now certain practices of poaching could definitely be argued as pathological desires to harm animals, however the two are quite different sports. (As hunting is about setting foot in an animal's world and trying to defeat it on it's own turf, for the trophies of pelt, meat, and pride to be obtained. while the poaching practices I'm talking of concern trapping an animal and then killing it while it can't run nor defend itself, or capturing an animal and then releasing it right in the presence of several poachers.)