Why do people feel the need to kill a wild animal for sport?

To have a private zoo that doesn’t need to be maintained or fed.

Because it feels good!

To “prove” their “manliness”.
But all they prove is that they are colossal cunts.

I’m not trying to generalize or judge people, but from my experience, every hunter I’ve ever met that hunts for sport seemed like an extremely insecure person.

I think it is about proving their manhood. Dentists have to compensate.

Legal law abiding trophy hunters, while I don’t actually support their sport I do understand it, while food hunters will take anything that is legal, a trophy hunter does not, the trophy hunter is after that BIG one and will forsake all other animals to get it.
A true trophy hunter will take the meat and usually donates it to the needy.
I am not a trophy hunter,but I do understand them and their sport.

There is a need for hunting certain animals (like deer) that don’t have enough natural predators to keep their populations at healthy numbers. Many will starve and suffer slow, agonizing deaths in the winters if there are too many for the existing food supply. It’s more humane for a swift kill shot in those cases, especially when the meat is used to feed the hungry.

Having said that, there is zero fucking reason to hunt endangered animals. I hope that dentist ends up sucking guys off in a Zimbabwe prison for the rest of his life.

In 2001 during the summer I worked for Kodak. I was in the digital room. This was before digital cameras were a affordable thing. We actually scanned the 35mm film and then it would go to my computer and I would rotate them to make sure the feet were on the bottom. Then I would burn thousands of CD’s.

I had to call the cops a few times a week for child pornography. And we are not talking about a baby in a bathtub. Really gross shit.

Tons of normal porn. But there were actually a shocking number of these big game hunters. The first one I encountered was a dude that downed a elephant. Posing with it while grabbing a tusk. So very proud of himself for shooting from 100 meters away. I called the police, they didn’t care.

I came around six of these that I can remember. I worked there for a little over two months.

Because they feel sexually inadequate. Walter Palmer had been sued for sexual harassment of his assistants, a classic case of sexual inferiority.

I suppose if you kill something like a lion, shark, bear, there’s some symbolism there, as already said. Strength, manhood, wtv. It’s all bullshit though. We can kill anything with our weaponry and technology. Put a man with nothing against a tiger or a bear, see how well he does. I get that intelligence is our thing, in lieux of claws, wings and night vision, so we should be able to celebrate our admiration for these beasts in other ways.
But well humans are violent beings, and despite our intelligence, it would appear that our disposition doesn’t allow us to go much further than fucking shit up.
Hell we kill our own species, nevermind respecting a life form that isn’t us.

How so very true @Symbeline ,so very true.

You have to be two things, American & fucking dumb, the two being inextricably linked.
That fucking cowardly dentist cunt didn’t just kill Cecil, the nature of things being that another male lion from the pride will now kill the offspring of Cecil in order to become dominant male.

Bragging rights. It shows he has the money and free time to spend on that activity.
The practice would stop if women avoided and did not have sex with guys like that.

@ragingloli Bitches hunt too.

As an adult I’m not really interested in hunting. I still fish but eat or release my catch. I would probably hunt wild hogs and put the meat to good use. I had someone give me a taste of wild hog bbq. Some people don’t like it but I sure did. I thing hunting for food is ultimately more humane than the feedlots and slaughterhouses we get our “food” from now. Hunting for meat is one thing Just killing stuff is something else. I don’t get it really.

Ego.

Boredom

~ he needed 50 experience points to level up. To douchebag from asshole. Edit didn’t he pay $55,000 to hunt a lion? His guides should have known that the lion was loved.

“When a child kills an animal for fun, we fear mental illness. When an adult with the capacity to reason does it, we call it sport. ”

Seth MacFarlane

Population control.

@talljasperman because he was just so distinguishable from any other lion? I highly doubt the guy was after that specific lion.

I do not have any first-hand knowledge of this case. I have only input from the media. Here is what I can glean.

Four parties are involved Let’s call them: the Hunter, the Guide, the Landowner and Cecil the lion.

The Hunter signed up with the Guide for the chance to shoot a lion on private land for $50,000 . That is a lot of cash in any country, but in Zimbabwe it is a F-ton of cash!!! Enough to make people do things they would not ordinarily. do.
To facilitate “the hunt” the Guide tied an animal carcass to his vehicle and drove around the preserve until a lion decided to follow. He then drove onto the Landowner’s property with Cecil the lion following close behind…
The Hunter hasn’t a clue that Cecil is special and tagged. He just knows that the Guide paid the Landowner to get permission to hunt on his property.

The Guide took the Hunter to a good spot so he could have a chance of bagging a lion with his crossbow. Cecil was already in the area having enjoyed the meal the Guide had left for him earlier.
The Hunter saw the lion and, Ffffitt!, got Cecil.

The guy was duped by the Guide and Landowner into thinking it was ok. Money corrupts.

(He was also a dufus. For $50,000 he could have bought over 150 slaves and set up a clothing sweat shop – a much wiser purchase!)

@LuckyGuy for $50k I’ll be happy to tell you that it’s legal to hunt dickhead dentists. See how that doesn’t really get you out of trouble if you kill one?

I have a better idea. Why don’t we hunt down dickhead dentists, take them down, and pull out all their teeth.

Except the arrow shot didn’t kill Cecil, he lived for hours, in agony no doubt until the fuckers tracked him down & shot him, defenceless, with a rifle.

@ucme I saw that. Oh man! I’ll bet the dentist and crew were all looking over their shoulders in fear. I’m guessing a wounded lion is not the friendliest critter in the jungle.

I’m guessing the sight of a wounded lion, by their hands, gave these pathetic cunts a boner.
Dentist twat is pissing his pants in fear now though, which is gratifying.

I don’t get why everyone cares about this lion so much, hundreds of lions are killed every fucking year and no one says shit, but give the lion a name and suddenly it’s a brutal tragedy? He wasn’t a little kitten who was slaughtered, he’s was a fairly large, meat eating predator. Have you ever seen the way lions kill their prey? I’d take the arrow and a bullet over that shit any day of the week.

Most people don’t know many lions are killed every fucking year. That’s why a lion with a name gets this much attention.

Nearly every single article written has listed the number of lions killed each year, or at the very least mentioned the way lions were typically baited by other hunters. So I guess that means most people are apparently too stupid to figure out anything on their own, and base their feelings on whatever is trendy on social media.
Nice.

It’s a well-known psychological phenomenon that people have a hard time caring about tragedies presented in the form of statistics. It’s the stories of individual cases that we find compelling. Numbers just don’t engage our empathy. That’s simply the way our minds work.

LOL it’s not stupid when you only discovered lions are being hunted and how they are being hunted along with news that a famous lion got killed especially when that one lion seemed to had been in some sort of protected status.

Most people probably don’t even know how many lions exists out there or if they are even endangered or whether it’s legal to cull their numbers in some countries.

What is stupid is assuming people only care when something sensational such as this lion’s death take place.

Some people may have already been making noise about lion hunting, just not loud enough for the whole world to hear before. They are NOT doing anything stupid along with those who have just started banging the drums now.