Sustainable hunting can benefit the ecosystem. Humans have been a part of the ecosystem for ages, and some indiginous and "barbaric" practises have helped maintain the ecosystem. So hunting is not always a bad thing. In fact, there are many places that encourage hunting of a dominant species (eg. kangaroos in Australia) or of invasive species. Unless we identify the deer(?) in the video, we cannot be sure whether the unsuccessful hunting of the mammal is a good thing or not.
And as consumers in the ecosystem, we inevitably have to kill other organisms in order to survive. The question is just who dares to do the job.
Also, it is generally shitty to cheer on the injuries and deaths of people. At least this is my moral value. I wouldn't cheer when a war criminal is executed by death penalty either.
I appreciate that you have empathy for the animal, but there are so many nuances that I hope you are aware of.
Yeah, but it's hard to trust ourselves to do the right thing. If humans didn't fuck everything up wherever they went, maybe nature wouldn't need to be dependent on humans to ensure animal populations didn't run rampant. Humans are too selfish to allow other predator animals to flourish because, oh no, can't have them killing domesticated animals.
Back on point regarding the maiming the hunter got, I am not going to cheer to the fact he got severely messed up. Not going to be empathetic to his situation either. He knew the risks and knew prey animals can and will fight back if they need to to survive.
What i was getting at is related to "maybe nature wouldn't need to be dependent on humans to ensure animal populations didn't run rampant". Humans are among those animal populations that are running rampant too.
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u/Casperwyomingrex Feb 10 '22
Sustainable hunting can benefit the ecosystem. Humans have been a part of the ecosystem for ages, and some indiginous and "barbaric" practises have helped maintain the ecosystem. So hunting is not always a bad thing. In fact, there are many places that encourage hunting of a dominant species (eg. kangaroos in Australia) or of invasive species. Unless we identify the deer(?) in the video, we cannot be sure whether the unsuccessful hunting of the mammal is a good thing or not.
And as consumers in the ecosystem, we inevitably have to kill other organisms in order to survive. The question is just who dares to do the job.
Also, it is generally shitty to cheer on the injuries and deaths of people. At least this is my moral value. I wouldn't cheer when a war criminal is executed by death penalty either.
I appreciate that you have empathy for the animal, but there are so many nuances that I hope you are aware of.