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[–]Node 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

How can you?

It's a wonderful world!

It's possible to be overly sensitive...

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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There are standards and ethics to hunting. Let's pick one: suppose you're the coward in the helicopter, and you shoot the pig in the leg, but think you killed it. The pig dies three days later, after a long, painful ordeal. (Hunters are expected to make a kill shot.) Many of these clowns in the helicopters are shooting pigs in any part of the body and leaving them to die painfully, in the hundreds. The other ethical issue is that hunting is mainly for the acquisition of food. Hardly any of those helicopter assholes will eat the pigs.

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

You're sure about that? You didn't even watch the video. The meat is given to worthy causes.

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You cannot verify that, Chipit. Does it look like they take their tiny helicopters down to the pigs and pick them up from their remote locations? (No.)

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well good to see someone is opposing the eradication of a destructive invasive species. Now get down to Australia and defend the cane toad.

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Come on Chipit - these are really dumb comments...

[–]Node 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Have you ever killed a mosquito?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not a mosquito the size of a feral pig

[–]Node 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The size of the lifeform you kill matters?

Anyway, I don't think you know much about the feral pig problem.

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I've been thinking about what you said the other day. Particularly earlier when I wasn't quite sure I was going to be alive much longer. I am not trying to kill myself. I can only really drink when the wife is gone. She's coming back soon.

I uh.. tried to find the right comment to reply to but everything is groovy.