Thread: Defending hunters

Originally Posted by gsp follower

[QUOTEI tried to make this point in the thread about the bloke who killed Cecil the Lion but failed. If we condem or don't condone the dentist bloke who pulled the trigger then we condem ourselves because there is only a subtle difference as to why he wanted to kill a lion and why we want to hunt the species we hunt.

We hunt thing for many reasons, food, trophies, pest control and sport. All of these reasons are valid in the right context and it's fair to say the thing being hunted doesn't care about the reason or what happens to it after it's death - it just wants to keep on living.

The dentist bloke paid for a above board and legal lion hunt. His guides may have done something that could be clasified as poaching but but he paid for and expected a legal hunt so this isn't his crime.

The angry mob on bookface and the rest of the internet is now up in arms about how somone could kill the cuddly wuddly lion and why would anyone do that? This cuts to the heart of the very reason why we hunt and if we can't answer this question then our children won't get to enjoy the same hunting culture that we have.

The reason why we hunt is the same reason Cecil (used to) hunt - we are preaditors, it's in our nature and it's natural for us to do this.]

thats the crux of the matter did he participate in a hunt knowing that unethical and illegal methods were bieng used.
must have been shit ph.s not to have stuck a couple of finishers in the lion bow hunt or no.
i thought imediate follow up and quick despatch would be part of a ph,s licencing duties.
trophy hunter meathunter whatever if he behaved outside the written and unwritten rules his trophy aint worth shit and his condemnation on those grounds is deserved from all of us.[/QUOTE]

Yep, another point is that it has not been proven that either Palmer or the Ph actually did anything illegal on this hunt, only allegations all made by the anti hunting crowd.

Aside from stuffing up the shot and the ph failing to finish it off immediately (again, we do not know the exact circumstances here) it is not clear than they did anything wrong, unethical perhaps, but also still to be proven.

To condemn them without knowing all the facts would be foolish.

But fully agree, should it be found that they acted illegally I have no issue with the full force of what little law Zimbabwe has to be thrown at them!