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I'm pretty convinced the ones in Valheim spend most of their time in the water trying to evolve into whales.

Re: hunting pics, pretty ghoulish but at least hunters try and go for a clean kill (beats slogging through the woods after a wounded animal). Since we cleaned out a lot of these animals' predators, one could consider it an act of environmentalism.

Canned pigeon shoots, cock fights, and torturing ungulates at grand events full of a bunch of sloshed rubberneckers all have a less convincing place in the natural order.

What the NRA is fighting for:

It isn't without its problems. Hunters want the best looking kills and cull animals in their prime rather than the old and the sick. More practical would be to encourage the return of predators we drove out of a lot of these places, so they can do the job they evolved for. But that isn't without pushback.

Allowing them to overpopulate into disease and starvation seems a little cruel. Also a zoonotic risk.

Wasting away to hunger and illness is highly miserable, but this is getting off track from like three points ago.

I'm not sure of a deer's ability to cogitate preferred deaths. Memes about headlights aside, they're mostly going to do their best to live. Hunting for cull is an imperfect way to manage populations sans natural predation for sustenance, for reasons mentioned, and more plainly that we're just bad at it. But short of reintroducing predators, which probably just won't happen in some areas, it's probably better than having more deer pushed into neighborhoods by their own population bloat, and being a vector for Lyme disease for everyone there. Or worse.

Do you still want to travel to Spain to take part in and fund cattle torture? Maybe you can get your picture taken there for the 'gram.

Hard pass. Hanging out with drunken, violent animal torturers in a city overcrowded with tourists doesn't look fun at all. And the two events, as I've mentioned, are connected.

If you want to run in a group, join a marathon.

it's a lot of americans, so, by default, generally an un-fun time.

it was this way even in hemingway's day. they spoil all the fun things.

i can think of about 25 places i would rather go in europe before spain. it's not really my thing.

I have come to reclaim Spain for my people!

I mean I have spent any number of posts objecting to this stuff where it occurs in the United States. Isn't the rodeo scene in Australia rather significant? Should people fly to Australia to machine gun emus?

Learned their lesson with the emus, right. Better commanders on the birds' side, I've heard.

You want to go run with the bulls, an event tied into the bullfighting. "Sometimes the bull wins" is the great, 'best' defense of it I hear apart from "it's a cultural thing!" Imagine reworking that into a defense of some other atrocity, like rape. "Well, sometimes the rapist gets shot, so it's still better than x y z things."

In some misogynistic viewpoints, it's what women are reduced to.

Seen that defense used for factory farming by the way. "Without this, as you put it, "horrible facility," these chickens wouldn't exist. We're a net positive!"