The Hoard Potato: Heroic Head-Bashing Harp Seal Hunters

[athelind]

I announced today, to my FurryMUCK clique, that I didn't want to see any more trailers for Monster Hunter 3. The game doesn't just annoy me: it actively pisses me off, and worse, it makes me think badly not only of gamers in general but of Japanese culture, in wide, bigoted swaths

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[wy]

I'll disagree. :P

As long as the harvest of baby seals is done in a sustainable manner, and care is taken to ensure that there are no population effects, I don't have a problem with clubbing the little beasties upside the head. it's a bit more sustainable than bullets, after all. I don't buy into this charismatic megafauna squee. They're cute, sure, but they're even cuter when I know that the harvest is being done sustainably, and that the entire critter is being used. Baby seal shampoo, anyone?

I'm an omnivore. And a dragon. Look. Critters are food. Sometimes we kill them ourselves. The best you can do is to do it in a manner that is sustainable, so that we will have cute, tasty noms in the future, and treat it in a manner consistent with your own internal morals prior to doing so. Oh, and enjoy every tasty last bit, hopefully prepared with the greatest of care.

Frankly, I'm slightly dissapointed that y'all don't see this.

[athelind]

Great! Now rationalize cockfighting.

[wy]

(= personal property rights, it's okay to do as you will as long as no sentients get hurt. (Note: harm to sentients can be defined as psychological as well as physical, ymmv greatly). The animals won't care much, it's their instinctual imperative to dominate other animals of their species in a hierarchical society.

And heck, if two sentients want to, willingly, get at fisticuffs no-holds barred, be my guest as long as the are not imposing a social cost to others (health care, etc)

[wy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

[silussa]

I believe the counter argument is that the seal hunt is necessary to maintain a stable population, as it appears we've done in most of their predators.

I do not know the accuracy of the pair of arguments, which is one reason I tend to avoid that particular subject; I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable to make an informed judgement.