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Anyone else against blood sports?

  • 19-09-2013 07:01PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭


    Dont get me wrong, killing animals is fine if you intend to eat it or you have pests. But for sport? Ahhhhh. Sick satisfaction.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    *pulls up a chair*

    This will end well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 FlushBang2013


    Zombienosh wrote: »
    *pulls up a chair*

    This will end well.

    I'm with you zombie :-) gonna be interesting


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Zed Bank wrote: »
    Dont get me wrong, killing animals is fine if you intend to eat it or you have pests. But for sport? Ahhhhh. Sick satisfaction.

    What if you kill pests for fun?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Zed Bank wrote: »
    Dont get me wrong, killing animals is fine if you intend to eat it or you have pests. But for sport? Ahhhhh. Sick satisfaction.

    Suppose you eat it after it's been killed for sport?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Would be against it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Profiler


    smash wrote: »
    What if you kill pests for fun?

    Then there is something wrong with you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Nah, Bloodsport was a wonderful movie, Jean Claude Van Damme all the way baby!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Nah, Bloodsport was a wonderful movie, Jean Claude Van Damme all the way baby!

    Kumite! Kumite! Kumite!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Meh, couldn't be bothered either way.

    But i'd be all for human bloodsports, á lá Death Race, Battle Royale, Gladiator, etc. Send the dregs of society in to battle to the death!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    kneemos wrote: »
    Suppose you eat it after it's been killed for sport?

    Depends, its not like you just kill one pheasant and eat it... I was out lampin once and hated it been against blood sports since


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    So, how long have you not liked Van Damme's movies? Are you a Segal fanboy instead?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Zed Bank wrote: »
    Depends, its not like you just kill one pheasant and eat it... I was out lampin once amd hated been against blood sports since
    You prefer if the foxes killed all of your hens?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    I shoot food for the table. I dislike giving my money to some Multi-National who sells me Horse...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,556 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    I like blood sports, but I prefer to hunt people for fun not animals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I agree, I particularly have an issue with coursing, yes the dogs are muzzled but hares still die and at the very least have crap scared out of them for the enjoyment of humans.

    I don't like the hunt, as in loads people dressed up on horses chasing a fox with a rake of dogs, just think it's a bit disgusting.

    I think hunters are great, guys who go out with their dogs on the weekend and shoot a few pheasants, rabbits etc. They are some of out best preservers of the countryside, they keep numbers of rabbits down for farmers. Of course there are some bad ones but you will find bad in every bunch.

    Another issue that no seems to think about is the dogs that are used in this sport they are often discarded when they are no longer of use, they are seen as disposable. They don't receive proper veterinary care if they are injured, they are dumped or sent to the pound. So many greyhounds die in Irish pounds every year that they have their own section in the stats, one column for greys, one for every other breed of dog. Now I am not saying that everyone is like this, but it is something that is very prevalent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    As long as it serves a purpose other than purely for fun and entertainment (food, pest control etc) then I've no problem.
    I've no problem if the people in control of it get enjoyment out of it either, I went hunting for deer before and it was a great experience. The 100 euro worth of venison steaks I got a week later were well worth it too!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Meh, couldn't be bothered either way.

    But i'd be all for human bloodsports, á lá Death Race, Battle Royale, Gladiator, etc. Send the dregs of society in to battle to the death!

    I like unreal tournament, where people get to fight to the death if they choose

    "Under NEG law, any two people could, under organised conditions, fight to the death. The various mining conglomerates organised matches and small leagues to channel aggression.
    The results were immediate and successful. The leagues escalated with money and promotions offered to victors. One insightful corporation, the Liandri Mining Corporation, began to tri-cast fights and capitalises on the primal form of entertainment."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    the_syco wrote: »
    You prefer if the foxes killed all of your hens?

    Im not a farmer so I dont have that problem, Ive a number of country friends and this argument is thrown up all the time, its ecology and food webs really. Put up better netting?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    the_syco wrote: »
    So, how long have you not liked Van Damme's movies? Are you a Segal fanboy instead?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Oh, oh, and if you don't kill your opponent, you're put to the death! That'll teach 'em!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    HUnting wild animals for food or population control is fine, but hunting, i.e. toffs, horses and foxes seems unecessarily barbaric. Generally not something that I would be concerned enough about to protest about though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    I don't understand how a supposedly intelligent being could take pleasure in such things to be perfectly honest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭somuj


    I don't understand how a supposedly intelligent being could take pleasure in such things to be perfectly honest.

    Because we're animals. Chimpanzes have been know to go out and kill for sport.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    somuj wrote: »
    Because we're animals. Chimpanzes have been know to go out and kill for sport.

    Do you eat your own shit too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭somuj


    Do you eat your own shit too?

    Yes and so do you. Seeing as how **** fertilizes the planet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭loubeelou


    Completely against it. I'm genuinely disturbed by people who get enjoyment from watching the suffering of any creature.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    somuj wrote: »
    Yes and so do you. Seeing as how **** fertilizes the planet.

    What a comeback.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    I don't understand how a supposedly intelligent being could take pleasure in such things to be perfectly honest.

    Intelligence has little to do with it. Its more to do with psychological make up and being a bit of a psychopath.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    somuj wrote: »
    Yes and so do you. Seeing as how **** fertilizes the planet.

    Oh what farm do you supply? I'd cut back on synthetic fertilizers too in this climate.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Sorry I missed the start of this thread. Was eating a few rabbits that I killed for the craic


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