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Using the drones to track deer seems unfair. Take an extreme example: imagine using several drones with thermal imaging cameras to follow in real time the locat
by karaterobot 3y ago
Using the drones to track deer seems unfair. Take an extreme example: imagine using several drones with thermal imaging cameras to follow in real time the location of every deer in an area. The hunter then uses their phone to select the largest and best of them to take. The drones sweep in and frighten the target deer in the direction of the hunter, who is waiting beside their truck on a nearby access road.
People say "just having a rifle makes it unfair to the deer," but I think even if you believe that, using drones seems unsporting to the deer, and unfair to other hunters who don't have access to the same resources.
- konschubert 3y agoI don't think the dear is interested in the sport, either way.
- karaterobot 3y agoI disagree, I think they're more invested in it than anybody.
- bee_rider 3y agoI don’t really get the idea of any type of hunting as sporting or not, between the hunter and the animal. Sports are games where consenting players agree on some set of rules. If people want to hunt for animal population control or food—I get it, fine. But any idea of fairness between the animal and the hunter is blatantly absurd.
- samatman 3y agoSport has an older meaning, of anything one does in leisure for the enjoyment of it. Hunting was always sport, and certainly in English circles, the question of good sportsmanship, and what is sporting, have also always been applied to hunting in those very terms. It's not a game, however. That's what you hunt.
- bee_rider 3y agoI’m aware that it is a thing, but it still makes no sense to me, in the framework of fairness. It sounds like it is still a game, just a single-player one, the player is handicapping themself not out of a sense of fairness but in the interest of keeping it fun. It seems really inhumane, to be honest. However we gussy it up, any rules of sportsmanship that get in the way of a good quick clean kill are just animal cruelty with extra steps. Lots of traditions, in retrospect, don’t look so great—dogfighting, bullfighting. Times change.
- fuzzfactor 3y agoI always figured that the more athletic ability, strategy, and respectable behavior that was required of the humans in order to prevail, the more sporting the pursuit whether there were any games or competitions involved at all.
- bee_rider 3y ago> I always figured that the more athletic ability, strategy, But why do people want to do that? I think the purpose is to provide enjoyment, entertainment, fun. > and respectable behavior This is where I want to quibble most I think. The only respectable way to kill an animal is in the manner that causes the least possible pain and suffering. If there comes a point where fun impedes the goal of reducing the suffering, then that fun is evil. I’m probably missing something because I don’t see any distinction between sports and games other than an arbitrary social classification that calls the former more respectable. (The deer don’t see it either, though).
- fuzzfactor 3y agoWell, I did want to frame my comment in a way that would still apply for those whose point of view is that no type of hunting is sportsmanlike in their opinion.