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Let me start this giant block of text off by saying that while I don't agree, I can understand the 'let the animals live' side of this argument. There really are easier ways to procure meat, and the ecology of the world would probably work itself into some sort of balance if we just left it alone in its entirety.
That said, hunting is an enormous part of human culture. Despite being almost totally physically outclassed in terms of speed and power, we still managed to hunt absolutely gargantuan creatures to extinction. While I'm sure we were not the first to utilize the method, humans are one of the deadliest, most finely tuned persistence hunters on the planet. We have evolved to be able to hunt in almost any condition, any climate, any prey.
This is in fact, the reason we became an apex predator. We endured where all other creatures could not, and we survived there by devouring the few creatures bad-ass enough to also share the territory with us. We did not back down from creatures a thousand times our individual mass. We did not back down from creatures who could kill us before we even knew they were there. We did not back down from creatures that stalked the night, looking to add us to the menu. We did not back down from creatures that were a combination of all three.
>I see hunting as more of a nod at my extended ancestry than anything.
Saying that it’s an antiquated or anachronistic practice? Yes, it absolutely is. Call it a base urge or animal instinct if you want, but it helps to teach you a little bit about the value of life. When tracking and hunting an animal you really do see that they have no lesser an urge to survive than you do. It teaches you respect for those animals that you’re hunting.
I would rather those animals die cleanly, in a few moments with some purpose than starve to death slowly over the course of a few months. Just my two cents anons.
