A posting about a DGU against a home-intruding bear somehow elicits a response that it was “shocking and evil” and segues into going to other countries to hunt is “disgusting and shows contempt for God’s creation.” [More]
I’ll take the side that an uninvited and unpredictable animal in my home, two-legged or four — is fair game. And while I never personally have trophy-hunted, I understand that aside from monetary benefits to the society that facilitates it, there is also another group that (unsurprisingly) benefits.
As for bringing God’s will into the argument, I confess I’m out of my depth (show me a human being who isn’t), but would not discount citing “mighty hunter before the Lord” Nimrod and “cunning hunter” Esau, or Genesis 9:3.
And loaves and fishes appear problematic, PETA hysteria notwithstanding.
As for non-food uses, I ain’t givin’ up my Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray.
I can even see justification for on Alabama matriarch’s skull soap dish.
https://www.appalachiabare.com/out-for-blood-jenny-brooks-and-her-boys/
Big City people have ZERO clue about ‘Nature’ or her God (paraphrasing Jefferson). Their ENTIRE knowledge base about ‘Nature’ derives from watching programs produced by Leftist Enviro-Whacko groups, pundits, Hollyweird ‘know-it-alls’, and outright terrorist groups such as ‘Earth Liberation Front’.
Those of us whom actually LIVE AMONGST Nature (I live in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming), now the brutality of how ‘Ma Nature’ actually operates, and she ain’t ‘gentle’ about anything! Being eaten alive, laying there in shock, is how thousands of deer, antelope, elk, and yes, critters as big as moose and bison, DIE every year.
Comparing dying be ‘tooth and claw’ vs the high energy kinetic transfer from a well designed hunting bullet provides an easy answer, as to which, for any SANE person.
Relating to Almighty God, last time I checked, and contextually speaking in a verbatim rendering of the texts, along with a thematic comparison of the same subject matter in the OT and NT, God told humans to ‘go forth and SUBDUE’ the Earth and everything in it!
Quite frankly, I’d LOVE to see some Big City People attempt to negotiate with a pissed off Grizz, Bull Moose, or Cow Moose (with a calf or two at her side): I already KNOW what the outcome would be: a puddle of Burgundy Goo with bits and pieces in it; but it’s the terrified screaming and short bit of running around that I would find so amusing.