I have no idea if this is a good idea. It is not a science. If you love animals with a passion you’ll hate the abuse of animals with an equal passion. If you love animals slightly, you’ll dislike the abuse of animals to an equal extent.
The more you genuinely care about animals the more empathy you have for them. You can feel what they feel and that is not anthropomorphizing animals. It is simply being knowledgeable about them and connecting one’s emotions to that knowledge. It is a connection with nature and our roots.
The balance between loving and hating in respect of animals and what happens to them is very similar to Newton’s Third Law, which states that forces are equal and opposite. All forces come in pairs. When you push off the ground with your foot you exert a force on the floor. The floor exerts an equal force on your foot.
The same principles are in play in the balance between caring for animals and hating the abuse and the needless killing of animals.
This is why I hate people who hunt animals for sport. Yes, hate is a strong world but so is love. You can’t hate sport hunting and respect the person who does it. Sport hunting is a human self-indulgence. It cannot be justified. If sport hunters justify it by saying there is a need to cull animals to keep numbers down, I argue that is a false argument.
The only reason why wildlife populations need to be kept down is because human population numbers have risen resulting in an encroachment onto the habitat of wildlife such that the animal then becomes a problem to people. It is a self-induced problem and the solution should be focused on people.
Sport hunting is good for the economy. It is good for people. It is an abuse of animals.
In the long term the planet cannot sustain 7 billion people as the earth’s resources will be depleted in doing it. By 2050 the population will be over 9 billion.
The reason why I say Grumpy cat is exploited and rant about it is because I love Grumpy cat. Why do I love her? Because she is vulnerable. The more vulnerable an animal is the more we should love and care for that animal. There is an equality in that equation too.
I’ll end there.
I just wanted to add. You all have given me plenty to think about. While I can’t envision a time where I don’t hunt. I am going to be a more vocal advocate for doing it as ethically as possible. Thanks again.
I know I don’t always get to comment on everything and I must miss some good comments as they disappear down the page but I do try to catch up when I get the time.
I think it’s a great idea to have membership of PoC 🙂
Sorry about the paragraphs. It was to far gone by the time I realized what I did.
I’m going to do my best move on from this site. I wish you nothing but the best. Good luck in your fight.
It would make me very happy, far more happy than making money from it. Anyway it belongs to cat lovers who regularly contribute. PoC is as much theirs as mine.
I read what you said. I feel badly for you–why can’t you do a vegetarian diet (eat eggs–those are good for you)? I believe, with all of my heart, that you would be a happier soul and male, if you gave up the bow, and arrow. 🙂
My friend, you did take the time to establish your well-validated point. We are all at fault, those of us who go to the grocery store to spend our money and buy packaged meat. It is wrong, even if it is 8x the cost of slaughtered meat.
There is an alternative. Don’t be fooled into eating animals that are inhumanely slaughtered.
Better yet, don’t prey upon another animal at all. Eat sensibly, as a vegetarian. Leave the meat to our beloved felines and canines, et. al. We, as humans, are beyond the need for meat in our diets.