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 * 1) Hunting is no more or less moral and ethical than buying meat from a supermarket or raising one's own livestock for food.
 * 2) If someone is uncomfortable with the idea of hunting, they shouldn't hunt and they shouldn't be pressured to hunt.
 * 3) But to condemn hunting and hunters as being immoral or unethical and to insist it be stopped is highly problematic.
 * 4) This really is a social issue about hatred, intolerance, prejudice and discrimination
 * 5) In this day and age, we are detached from the realities of where our food comes from.
 * 6) It is acceptable to pay someone to kill the cows, pigs and chickens we purchase at the supermarket.
 * 7) It is also acceptable for a person to raise their own livestock for food.
 * 8) However, if I choose to hunt non-endangered animals during a legal hunting season, observing local laws, some will claim that I am no different from a violent criminal.
 * 9) Hunters are not evil or maniacal.
 * 10) I have never met a hunter who "killed for the thrill" and left the carcass behind.
 * 11) I have never met a hunter who hunted endangered species or didn't observe local seasons and laws. This does happen from time to time and it is called poaching.
 * 12) Poaching is illegal and is very much frowned upon in the hunting community.
 * 13) To compare hunters to poachers is like comparing shoppers to shoplifters.
 * 14) To compare hunters to poachers is like saying that all men are rapists
 * 15) As far as whether or not hunting is humane, I can only say that a hunter is highly motivated to make an accurate, humane kill shot to the vital organs. This is both for the sake of the animal and for the sake of the hunter.
 * 16) No hunter wants to make an animal suffer needlessly, and it is not in the hunter's best interest to wound an animal that runs off, is panicked and difficult to locate for a second shot.