Welcome back! Two years ago, a Minnesota
dentist named Walter Palmer was publicly shamed for killing
a beloved lion called Cecil during a hunting expedition in
Zimbabwe. Well, like father like son. And I don't mean the dentist. >>Two years after Cecil the lion
was killed by a Minnesota trophy hunter, the animal's son
apparently has met the same
fate. Authorities say that Xanda, a
6-year-old lion with several
young cubs was shot near the
same spot as his father. What are the odds? Cecil's family are like the
Kennedys of the Animal Kingdom. Yes. 6-year-old Xanda had a
family of his own. A bit young to be a dad if you
ask me, but, you have to remember that he
grew up in a tough neighborhood
with no male role-model. Now, there's a difference
between trophy hunting and game hunting.
Now, I don't like either of
them, to be honest. Now, I know that people consider
hunting to be a sport. It's not
a sport. Sports have winners and losers. When have you ever lost at
hunting? And I suppose you could call it
a hobby, but it's a c-nt's
hobby. If your hobby, if your hobby is
you and your best friend dressed
up in camouflage, hiding in a swamp and going
'honk honk', so you can fool the
mind of a duck, what type of low-life prick are
you? And--I've heard the whole
argument that you use the kill
to feed your families. Oh! Thank god you came along! We're all running out of food
here in America without you,
Noble Huntsman! I can't even figure out another
way to feed my family! I don't know, maybe go to
Ralph's! And stop bragging about using
the whole animal. No one cares! If a serial killer made a
lampshade out of human skin, you wouldn't say, 'Well, at
least he's using every part of
the victim.' But, at least there are
arguments for game hunting. Trophy hunting is different. It's less about living off the
land, and more about paying lots of money
to kill rare animals for
instagram likes. And--I know. Can you believe that this
happened during Shark Week? Why would you do that? That's like Shark Christmas to
them! Trophy hunters will claim that
they're helping local
communities that can use the meat from the
kill. But, think about that from the
villagers point of view. Day one: fresh lion, everyone's
happy. Day two: more lion. Day three: cold lion sandwiches. Day four: what is it mom? Lion
casserole. Ughhhh. Then it's lion salad, lion soup,
lion tacos, then finally, geez mom, can we have something
besides lion? And then your mom
goes, 'You'll eat your lion and you'll
be grateful, because there's
kids starving in Africa, and
they're you!' Hunters will also argue, the
money spent on hunting trips
goes to conservation efforts. But that's not really true
either. >>In a 2013 report, prepared for
the African Lion Coalition found that just 3% of hunting revenue
ends up in local communities. 3 percent? Locals can make just as much
money from tourists who come and
look at the animals and don't f-cking shoot them. Be honest with us, hunters. Be
honest with us. You don't do it because you care
about conservation or helping
others. You just like the killing part. >>Tears and sweat and challenges
that you can't imagine that you can face and
overcome. When I kill an animal, I walk up to the animal, and with great and deep respect, place my hand on his face and thank him for his life. You c-nt. Maybe another way to thank the
animal for its life is by not killing it. Blood lust is simply part of who
hunters are. According to a recent study,
hunting is linked to personality
traits like narcissism and psychopathic behavior. Just look at the people who do
it. But maybe the most offensive
thing about trophy hunting is how much people are willing to
pay to go kill something. >>Hunters from around the world
spend upwards of 325 million
dollars on hunting in Africa yearly. A Cape Buffalo hunt runs
$20,000. A Leopard hunt can cost as much
as $28,000. And a lion hunt costs $100,000
per cat. Really the main reason I can't
stand trophy hunters is because I hate rich people. I've hated rich people my entire
life. And I know the irony is, But I think we can all tell that
I'm new money and I have a lot
of self-hate. Rich people are somehow allowed to do things differently than
everyone else in the world.
Like, the rest of us are playing
soccer, we're all having a great
time. We're kicking a ball around and
then a rich person comes along
and goes, 'I'd like to play
soccer-- but I'll be sitting on the back
of a horse, and I also need a
big hammer.' Rich people don't play by the
same rules as everyone else. So a rich dentist is allowed to
pay $55,000 to lure an animal out of a
nature preserve into an open
area, shoot him with a bow and arrow,
watch the animal bleed out over two days, and then when the
animal is almost dead, he shoots
it. Then he goes out, takes a
photograph with the dead animal, and then he cuts the animal's
head off and mounts it above his
fireplace. If a poor person did the same
thing, but within his means, we would lock him in prison. Say a poor person sat in his
backyard and shot regular cats. Regular, household, domestic
cats. They're not endangered in any
way. We put them down all the time. Let's say, let's say this guy
knew a guy that knew where a cat might be. And he paid him five dollars
fifty to lure that cat into his
yard. Then he chucks a dart that he
stole from the pub into the side
of the cat. Then he watched the cat die. Then he runs out and takes a
photo of him with the dead
little cat. And then he thinks to himself, 'Hmm, this erection's not gonna
last forever. How will everyone know the
second they walk into my studio
apartment what a great cat-killer I am?' So he takes out a knife and he cuts the little, tiny
cat's head off. Until he's just holding the
cat's head. Then he puts it on a wooden
plaque and he mounts it above his space
heater. Because--he doesn't have a
fireplace. Because he's poor. Now look at me and tell me we
wouldn't lock that guy up.
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The people you seem to be asking about don't actually get angry about hunting generally. They oppose the trophy hunting of rare animals.
edit: -Put another way, they value species & don't care enough about individuals. Presumably they wouldn't mind it if lions were farmed by the billions for meat.
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