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From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP (Carl W. Amport)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Hunters
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 16:30:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 16:30:35 1983
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Alan, you are making a very emotional stand on what is an unemotional issue.
Hunting does serve a useful and necessary function for wildlife.  But, I'm glad
you don't look down on me for eating Big Macs.  Maybe you should criticize
the emotionally disturbed farmers who raise livestock.  They are motivated
by profit and I am sure many of them enjoy what they do, since most of them
could work less and make more in another profession.  Perhaps, the emotionally
disturbed meat packers should be the next target.

I am not motivated to hunt by the *need* to kill.  I enjoy it for many other
reasons.  Killing has always been a part of hunting.  But if I just wanted to
kill something, there are many easier ways to do it than hunting.  I also
enjoy archery hunting for deer and it takes much more of my time than hunting
with a gun.  It is quite apparent to me that killing is not a large motivation
for my hunting.

Emotionally Stable,	Carl W. Amport