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urbpanSome good discussion developed on Facebook (of all places) when I posted a link to this: http://deepseanews.com/2013/02/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/
"Why is it that we seem to have moved away from celebrating images like the one above left (a big game hunter posing over a dead African lion) yet seem to have no problem with the the image above right (a fishing party with their 1,320 pound dead Blue marlin caught off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean)?...Why do we seem so resistant to seeing fish (marlin, shark… whatever) as wildlife?"
Or the way I put it: Is posing with a dead, hunted predator tacky/classless/unacceptable? What if that predator was a fish?
"Why is it that we seem to have moved away from celebrating images like the one above left (a big game hunter posing over a dead African lion) yet seem to have no problem with the the image above right (a fishing party with their 1,320 pound dead Blue marlin caught off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean)?...Why do we seem so resistant to seeing fish (marlin, shark… whatever) as wildlife?"
Or the way I put it: Is posing with a dead, hunted predator tacky/classless/unacceptable? What if that predator was a fish?
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Date: 2013-02-23 09:39 pm (UTC)As a Buddhist I am not supposed kill for food any animal that "nurses its young", and to not kill intentionally any living being except to eat or to prevent someone (or animal) killing us.
Perhaps it is because we don't like to think of ourselves as being trused up as a trophy. Humans do this though. We have done, though out history. I think there is a sort of insanity that takes over when we are killing.
My father caught and killed a marlin off the coast of Mexico back the 60's when it was not an unusual thing for a White Man with Money to do. He put hours of effort into it. It wasn't a fair fight but it was a fight and he got an adrenelin rush from it. He got a picture just like the one on the right. He did not however have any interest in hunting the whole time he lived in Africa, even though he hunted and killed deer as a young man in the Yukon. I never thought to ask him why. He was older and perhaps more aware of endangered species by then.
I saw a deer get shot once when I lived in Northern Ontario. It totally freaked me out. It was going to be eaten BUT NOT BY ME, of that I was sure! I couldn't get my head around it. the animal seemed more lovely and it's death more of a shame than anything I could imagine at the time.