As an extreme leftie, I seem to get a lot of right-wingers agreeing with me on the animal rights issue than on any other issue.  I look at this issue the way I look at most issues, in terms of human equality and opportunity for all.  As a Marxist, I put human life, all human life, first. 

But let's face it, we need to take care of the environment and the animals in it.  I find it sad when I see animals killed for no reason.  But I also find it sad when we see one-sided media manipulation of the seal hunt, for example.  The fact is that these seals need to be killed to bring about equilibrium or, at worst, to bring a way of making a living to the sealers.  The fact we see baby seals getting harpooned demonstrates how the media only picks and chooses what to show.  It is en vogue to save seals while the people suffering from this misrepresentation can just go to hell.

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The fact is that these seals need to be killed to bring about equilibrium

There would be equilibrium without sealing.

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I have known many hunters and their mentality is always the same. They use the whole equilibrium card as a way to justify things in their minds and ease the guilt.

How many have you actually known? Were they sealers or professional hunters, or recreational? I've never heard a hunter I met in real life use that justification.

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Equilibriam...population control.....

It takes one buck to impregnate a herd of does. So why are their more buck tags than doe tags? Wouldn't it make more sense to kill the does - if it truly is about population control?

Why do the proud hunters mount their kill in their homes if it just about feeding their family?  When meat eaters such as lions hunt - they always go for the old and weak. Human hunters do the exact opposite. They want the young buck - they want the rack - they want the envy of all of their friends.

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Very good point.

I live in the middle of redneck-ville Florida, and all I see in the backs of these guys trucks are antlers; there is even a Taxidermy guy down the road from me.
Mother Nature takes care of its' own without our intervention...WE are the ones who need population control and just stop overtaking every square mile of this earth.

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Just gettin back on the net lately.  Anyway, I grew up in a 'hunting' family.  I helped my brother hold the legs of a deer apart while she was still alive so my stupid %#&!*% stepdad could split her with his knife. 

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Although, I knew what I was doing was wrong...I just kept on doing whatever else the rest of the stupid ass human race was doing.

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