Reply #38: Oh boy [View All]

[goju]

Tell me, if someone is killing with no consmption, what is the motivation behind it if not psychological reward - i.e. satisfaction or pleasure ?

How much pleasure or satisfaction did you derive from the last cockroach you stepped on? Really now, to polarize "killing" as being either for consumption or pleasure is absurd. Critters die for all sorts of reasons. The motivations behind the killing are irrelevant, for the most part.

But onto the bigger question. Is one form of killing more justified than another? The critter is just as dead, and he/she/it doesnt care what your intentions were, or are. Why is the question of motivation even relevant? Wanton destruction of life, I think is where you were going....

I know of no one, save the most heinous of serial killers, who lived to kill, so Im just not following your "non-consumption-oriented slaughter" drift. Were you referring to "sport hunters" (still not sure what that means)?

Would enjoying the "kill" make hunting less ethical than if we didnt enjoy the kill?