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Originally Posted by Rizla
Why have twice downgraded the severity of the passage I am referring to?
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There was no severity to downgrade.
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First, you described it as big-game hunting. It clearly is not, and my initial post made it clear it was not. Big-game hunting does not involve the mass and needless slaughter of a herd. It is the tracking of a single animal.
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Maybe they were hunting lots of animals.
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Second, you liken it to warfare, which, as I stated in my response, is clearly not the same thing at all.
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Back then, it wasn't the same thing either, but that was because animals were even more socially acceptable to kill than humans... not because it was socially unacceptable to kill humans in war back then.
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Why have twice tried to describe the scene I am referring to as something other and more palatable than what it actually is? As I said, my initial post was quite clear, but you appear to have chosen to ignore or attempt to distort it into something else.
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No, HarryT was
comparing the two.
Killing lots of animals for a meal is no worse than big game hunting -- same waste. Back then, talking about the concept of "wasting animals" and "killing animals for no reason" would get you laughed at with derision -- they'd think you insane. Doesn't matter
why you were killing them.