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How is hunting a serious mental sickness? Lest you forget your ancestors were very capable hunters, else you would not be here.
by DamnYuppie 11y ago
How is hunting a serious mental sickness? Lest you forget your ancestors were very capable hunters, else you would not be here.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoTake any group of cub scouts to the park, they see a duck, they reach for a rock. Its built-in. We are hunters.
- icebraining 11y agoThat behavior not nearly as universal as you make it sound.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoWishful thinking? Give your own examples...
- makmanalp 11y agoOr maybe, just maybe, that's the kind of stuff cub scouts are taught, or the kind of thing that they learn from their elders and role models?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoBeen taking scouts out for 20 years. First time they ever see a duck. They didn't need teaching.
- jschwartzi 11y agoIf they were hungry enough, they would either reach for the rock or starve. Have you eaten any animal flesh lately?
- trhway 11y ago>Take any group of cub scouts to the park, they see a duck, they reach for a rock. any non-mentally ill adult present would use the situation to explain that it isn't acceptable. > Its built-in. We are hunters. yea. Hannibal Lecter.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoExplaining what society condones has nothing to do with what built-in impulses Homo Sapiens possesses. What's your point?
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- trhway 11y agoHomo Sapiens doesn't possess those built-in impulses. Some sick members of society imprint that it on some others (usually early in their life), and with society putting some effort into it, that bad habit will be exterminated.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoEvidence seems to contradict that Pollyanna view.
- trhway 11y agojudging by your other comments, talking about evidence you probably mean your personal experience. Well, by the same token one would expect that people dealing with rapists would with the same validity talk about such Homo Sapiens built-in impulse too.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoReally? My experience with the general population of youth in our area is similar in any way? This thread is off the rails.
- tacostakohashi 11y agoI think you might mean "lest".
- 1945 11y agoBig game hunting. Important words you dropped. And the reason it is a mental sickness is because they're not hunting for food or survival, they're hunting for the sake of destroying life.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoYou act as if these are inherently different. Things necessary for survival sometimes became pleasurable to do. This seems like just labeling behavior/desires one doesn't like as a mental illness.
- trhway 11y ago> This seems like just labeling behavior/desires one doesn't like as a mental illness. There is difference between desires and behavior. Inability to control desires resulting in a behavior intentionally damaging another sentient being(s) is a mental illness. Lack of empathy is a characteristic of psychopaths.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIn which case, our over consumption of meat makes us a society of mostly psychopaths (not even counting the non-eating things vegans do that can harm animals). I'm not to say you are fully without a point. Consider manual breeding of animals and what exactly is involved, which is done primarily for profit and which would be considered very anti-social behavior if done for more personal reasons. I dare say this is one place we are hypocritical as a society (compare treatment of dogs and pigs).
- trhway 11y ago>our over consumption of meat makes us a society of mostly psychopaths well, once the artificial meat comes into our life, only psychopaths would be consuming meat. > (compare treatment of dogs and pigs) things change. 10 years ago i was laughing at vegetarians, while since then i've stopped eating pork, beef, lamb, etc. because it is highly sentient beings. ( still eat poultry though. The day will come here too.)
- golergka 11y agoMost definitions of mental illness, include, in one form or another, the question of whether the behaviour creates obstacles to live in a society. So, is it a mental illness or not, depends, by definition, on whether the society accepts this behaviour or not.