As a person who tried a friend’s watermelon wine and helped them pour it all down the drain that some day, I’m glad your melon experience went well.

You forgot to say over. Over.

10-4. Over.

Like a toaster over?

I want to sword to be a detached love dart and for each defeated enemy to become part of an expanding polycule.

For a movie with this premise, may I recommend The Lobster

Yeah, COVID really did put the idea that people can self organize constructively in the face of global events into the ground.

This is clearly Mad Bull and is ok for children to have after takoyaki.

So there’s clothed ones and then the two humping ones right in the front and a bunch of other unclothed one everywhere, so did the clothed ones just arrive late to the orgy or what?

Once Rita Repulsa makes it the size of a building, that when the Megazords come out.

Didn’t know the I Ching was so foxy.

My conversations here must not count, nor have they improved my opinion.

Ok.

Damn, dude, not every hunter is a deer population manager.

Hunters do hunting, surgeons try and heal people. In one the killing is the point and in the other the cutting in incidental.

Avoiding factory farmed animals but still eating animals is something a lot of people say to pat themselves on the back, but I don’t buy it.

Anyway, I can see this is a really personal thing to you and you’re really upset by it. Don’t think too much about why you get defensive about it, though, or why you have to carve out exceptions to try and make it less creepy.

Lol, come into a community about unpopular opinions, see people adverse to those opinions, get surprised and upset?

Since you mentioned eating

No, I specifically tried to avoid it, but go ahead and ignore that 🤦

Hiking is a thing you can do in nature alone or is groups that doesn’t involve killing, so I don’t understand your point about that making hunting less creepy. And even if most of the hobby isn’t the actual killing, the rest of it is planning, setting up for, fantasizing about, talking about, etc., the killing, so that’s not very convincing either. Like I get that if you have, say, cooking as a hobby that you look up recipes, buy ingredients, and eat, but nobody that has cooking as a hobby buys ingredients to not cook (raw vegans excepted 🥁🥁🛎️).

And telling me about how different flesh tastes depending on how you kill them sounds pretty creepy.

Thanks for not bringing up eating! I really appreciate it.

Yes, population management is a real thing. Not denying that, and I probably should have mentioned it.

I still find the people that want to participate in it for fun very creepy.

Sticking a hook into something to drag it around and then temporarily suffocate it, yeah, that doesn’t seem pleasant.

Yeah, comparatively. I guess in human terms it would be the difference between manslaughter vs premeditated murder. I find the whoops it’s dead less creepy than the let’s plan and carry out a killing.

• you kill insects so you’re just as bad
• But I eat it so it’s ethical and respectful (nothing to do with the opinion I expressed)
• Cats are different than game
• Population control (nothing to do with the opinion I expressed)

I’m pushing away the arguments because they don’t actually address my point. They’re bad rhetoric. THEY are not giving valid reasons, it’s the same stuff I’ve heard before and it’s still bad rhetoric, that’s why I’m pushing them away. Pick one and we can go through it if you want.