Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!tomczak
From: tomczak@harvard.ARPA (Bill Tomczak)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: hunting season is here again
Message-ID: <436@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 14:22:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: harvard.436
Posted: Thu Oct 17 14:22:38 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 08:48:40 EDT
References: <252@tekig5.UUCP> <578@bonnie.UUCP> <385@mot.UUCP>
Reply-To: tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill tomczak)
Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard
Lines: 29

In article <385@mot.UUCP> al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
>A couple years ago, some guy here in Arizona went Mountain Lion hunting
>armed with just a Rambo-type knife. He wore some kind of a leather
>corset/jockstrap to prevent the lion from disemboweling him with his
>back claws (the way a kitty cat rakes your arm when you grab his belly)
>He climbed up a tree after the cat and killed him, getting some
>slashes on his arms in return. It was written up in the paper.
>Now, in my opinion, this was about as unpleasant and bloodthirsty as a
>sport can get, but I've got to give the guy credit for one thing: 
>He's the only hunter I've heard of who really gave the animal an even chance.

I agree!  I guess I'm what you might call a 'granola' who doesn't
believe in killing and hunting as so-called 'sport'.  Guns and nuclear
missles only provide a sense control and power.  At least this guy in
Arizona would get a clearer sense of what death really is about.

I recently saw a Star Trek episode in which Doctor McCoy expresses to
Spock his lack of desire for the Vulcan ability to feel almost directly
(or something like that) the pain of others.  Spock says something like
"Perhaps your history on Earth would be less bloody if you had the same
ability".

I should probably point out that I'm not a vegetarian so my views on
killing can't be as simple as stated here.  But I figured you all don't
want to hear about that.

Bill tomczak@harvard.{ARPA, UUCP}

Please don't flame, I already know that I'm lower than slime mold!