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In reply to the discussion: How do you feel about safari? [View all]
 

Eleanors38

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8. The question Ortega y Gasset dealt with.
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 11:47 AM
Aug 2015

One kills in order to have hunted; otherwise, it is not hunting as we are discussing it. Of course this doesn't mean that killing is pro forma hunting (see chicken/beef slaughter houses), and it doesn't mean that "camera hunting" does not have elements of hunting in the activity.

Without trying to be circular, hunting from the beginning of humans was about finding other animals, killing them, and eating them. So it seems any hunting must involve killing.

There is more argument as to what constitutes hunting with regards to its actual practice, not the killing. I have stomped through fields for miles hoping to "kick up" dove which I must then (try to) shoot. That is hunting. But in another field, the birds may be flooding into a field to eat waste grain, and my activity is primarily shooting. Perhaps I "found" the field which had the birds, but really this is shooting under hunting regulations.

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