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From: alan@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Hunters, Revisited
Message-ID: <2091@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 09:55:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 09:55:01 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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	From: rlgvax!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk
	To: ccieng5!rlgvax!allegra!alan
	Subject: Hunters

		...

	I most recently lived in Colorado and Wyoming.  The motivations
	for hunting out there are far, far different from the motivations
	from most people back east who go hunting.  I know a number of
	people in Wyoming personally who hunt for the express purpose of
	feeding their family.  Frankly, it's a LOT less expensive to hunt
	for meat than it is to buy meat in a grocery store.

		...

	Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that the motivation for
	hunting (at least in certain parts of the country) is extremely
	honorable, I think.  Also, wild meat is generally considered of
	much higher quality (i.e., tastier, better to eat) than domestic
	stock.


I hear what you're saying, and I don't disagree with any of it.


	As a vegetarian, you may find that revolting; sorry.


Don't worry, I haven't lost my breakfast yet!  Seriously, this
isn't an issue I'm highly emotional about.  I made my decision
to be a vegetarian for very calm, rational reasons.


	Therefore, you can't just say that because a person likes to hunt,
	he's emotionally disturbed.


Again, we agree.  However, in the article you're responding to,
I stressed *motivation*.  What you have said here is that *some*
hunters have very different motivations, and it isn't fair to make
the same judgement in their case.  This is true.

Please read my original article carefully.  I was attacking people
who hunt because they find killing pleasurable.


	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories