Fox hunting: a reasoned debate...

[Oldskool]

It can be justified because people want to do it; sure there is pest control involved but the riding and time in the countryside are the main things, so I'm told.

Is the killing the main thing for you with a gun? It's not for me. Time in the open, the peace and quiet, marksmanship etc mean far more. Death of an animal is just a by-product.

Death is one hell of a by product . Don't get me wrong , foxes are a pest and I'm not sentimental about em , but let's be honest hunting em on horse back with dogs is cruel whether it's enjoyable or not .

I honestly don't care how they get killed but I'm not a hypocrite and when I see cruelty I call it for what it is . It's not me that's doing it after all it's not on my conscience !

[Dougan]

It can be justified because people want to do it

That unusually illogical of you Mr Logic - There's plenty of things that are either illegal (including hunting foxes with dogs btw), or immoral, by most reasonable standards, that can not be justified just because people want to do it...

[Oldskool]

It can be justified because people want to do it

That unusually illogical of you Mr Logic - There's plenty of things that are either illegal (including hunting foxes with dogs btw), or immoral, by most reasonable standards, that can not be justified just because people want to do it...

Agreed . I think I know what he means tho , I think he's saying precisely because people want to do is exactly why it will be justified . Not that it intrinsically cam in itself .