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Have you ever intentionally killed something?

Have you ever intentionally killed something

  • No

    Votes: 3 3.1%

  • Yes, Pests (bugs, mice etc)

    Votes: 67 69.8%

  • Yes , Small Animals (rabbits, lab rats, fish etc)

    Votes: 17 17.7%

  • Yes, Big Animals (deer, dogs, moose etc)

    Votes: 9 9.4%
  • Total voters
    96
dukebound85 said:
ok i dont believe in killing for the sake of killing...
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I shot sparrows and pigeons (flying rats if you ask me) as a kid with a BB gun. Would you also say that I was wrong for 'killing for the sake of killing?'

Off topic maybe.... The thing I find humorous sometimes is how the majority of people who are so anti animal 'killing' or who are vegetarians/vegans are often the people who haven't spent a single second on a farm or even around the animals they so desperately want to protect.

Why is it that the people who are generally the most educated in regards to animals (outdoorsmen, farmers, etc.) and know about them in a much more personal way than through a TV screen... are the ones who are rarely vegetarians and who don't have a problem killing an animal if there is a reason.

Just something I've noticed over the years.
 
Zombie Acorn said:
I grew up in Kansas, go midwest :D
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haha me too! was born in hays, lived in lawrence. yea i grew up all over from farms to mega cities to college towns to boring towns from ks to neb to ga to ok to co and now ny lol

fivepoint said:
I shot sparrows and pigeons (flying rats if you ask me) as a kid with a BB gun. Would you also say that I was wrong for 'killing for the sake of killing?'

Off topic maybe.... The thing I find humorous sometimes is how the majority of people who are so anti animal 'killing' or who are vegetarians/vegans are often the people who haven't spent a single second on a farm or even around the animals they so desperately want to protect.

Why is it that the people who are generally the most educated in regards to animals (outdoorsmen, farmers, etc.) and know about them in a much more personal way than through a TV screen... are the ones who are rarely vegetarians and who don't have a problem killing an animal if there is a reason.

Just something I've noticed over the years.
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yea i believe you are wrong. i dont believe in killing rabbits or birds for the fun of it. now if you are into hunting and actually kill the animla to eat or use it somehow then i have no issue

im not a vegetarian, i lived on a farm, and i hunt:rolleyes:

i do have the respect for animals to not just kill it when i dont need to:cool:
 
fivepoint said:
I shot sparrows and pigeons (flying rats if you ask me) as a kid with a BB gun. Would you also say that I was wrong for 'killing for the sake of killing?'

Off topic maybe.... The thing I find humorous sometimes is how the majority of people who are so anti animal 'killing' or who are vegetarians/vegans are often the people who haven't spent a single second on a farm or even around the animals they so desperately want to protect.

Why is it that the people who are generally the most educated in regards to animals (outdoorsmen, farmers, etc.) and know about them in a much more personal way than through a TV screen... are the ones who are rarely vegetarians and who don't have a problem killing an animal if there is a reason.

Just something I've noticed over the years.
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Fair point but to me the answer seems obvious: they have familiarity with the creature, it's habitat and life. By and large they don't kill unnecessarily or for fun. But not always of course.

Well for me there's killing for a reasonable reason: Food, (rabbits, pheasant, quail, any eatable in a famine).

To protect your crops, (anything that causes excessive crop damage, slugs, snails, ruddy ferral pigeons) to protect your health (Mosquitos, rats, mice).

Then there's killing for fun. Which is just sadistic. And sick. Cats kill for fun. I hate Cats. Some humans kill for fun. It's arguable they are more self aware and have a choice which equals responsibility.

I'm horrified at Fivepoint for killing Sparrows because here they are becoming rare and endangered and I don't know any great harm of them so unless you are really hungry, as they are very small, I see no justification. But perhaps where Fivepoint lives they are numerous enough and damaging enough to be worthy of killing but I'm not convinced.

dukebound85 said:
yea i believe you are wrong. i dont believe in killing rabbits or birds for the fun of it. now if you are into hunting and actually kill the animla to eat or use it somehow then i have no issue

im not a vegetarian, i lived on a farm, and i hunt:rolleyes:

i do have the respect for animals to not just kill it when i dont need to:cool:
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Dukebound has summed it up for me. Not for fun but for a reasonable reason.
 
RHD said:
I'm horrified at Fivepoint for killing Sparrows because here they are becoming rare and endangered and I don't know any great harm of them so unless you are really hungry, as they are very small, I see no justification.
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Agree.

I see no reason to lump them in with those disgusting pigeons.
 
Abstract said:
I kill all the weird bug, while I let all the pretty bugs go.





However, there are no "pretty bugs", so...... It's murdaaaaa.
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well i would guess that we are normalized to certain bugs moreso than others. and some are just plain creepy/disgusting mores than other ones likely due to familiarity. flies and ants and the like never bother me. water bugs, roaches, centipedes are just creepy.
 
RHD said:
More interesting question: under what circumstances could you kill a person?
To save your life? To save someone else's life? To prevent a holocaust?
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I would kill ALL of you to save my own life. :D
 
Flies and mosquitoes, nothing else.

I still go out of the way to avoid stepping on ants on the sidewalk.. I don't like killing things regardless of it's status.
 
I have killed a dog before. I was about 11 living in the Caribbean and this stray dog kept coming around the house. Its hair were matted and a hole with worms were oozing out of its head. It appeared to be slowly dying. It was painful to watch, so my cousins and I took him to the river, put him in a bad with a heavy stone and sunk him.

I still get nightmares today.
 
fivepoint said:
Off topic maybe.... The thing I find humorous sometimes is how the majority of people who are so anti animal 'killing' or who are vegetarians/vegans are often the people who haven't spent a single second on a farm or even around the animals they so desperately want to protect.

Why is it that the people who are generally the most educated in regards to animals (outdoorsmen, farmers, etc.) and know about them in a much more personal way than through a TV screen... are the ones who are rarely vegetarians and who don't have a problem killing an animal if there is a reason.

Just something I've noticed over the years.
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Simple. Those raised on a farm grow up watching their parents slaughter animals; therefore, they don't find fault with it. Additionally, those who choose to work on a farm as adults obviously aren't going to have issues killing animals: it's a self-selected sample.

Just because one is educated with respect to animal husbandry doesn't make them any more or less authoritative on the moral aspects of animal farming; in fact, one might argue that their opinion is more biased and therefore less valid.
 
I killed a fish once. It swallowed the lure and I couldn't remove it without ripping it's guts out. I felt the best thing to do would be to bash its head on a rock to kill it instantly. It worked, but I felt really strange doing it. :eek:

P-Worm
 
While in college, I once intentionally killed a bottle of Jack.

The next day, I wanted to intentionally kill myself.
 
The poll should be different...



And when I clicked the thread in my mind I read "someone" not "something" lol.
 
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