QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 06:38 AM)
Hunters, for the most part, consume the meat of the animals they shoot. They don't go out in the woods to torture an animal or pit two animals against each other and watch them fight. I know there are those idiots who go out and shoot animals just to shoot them, and they leave them to die. But people like that are vastly outnumbered by responsible hunters.
What about the perspective of the helpless animal they set out to kill? I know as a sentient being I wouldn't enjoy someone going out and putting an arrow through my gut or getting a rifle's bullet through me as I limp away to bleed out.