Quote (IceMage @ Jul 22 2016 05:24pm)
They legally paid a bunch of money to whoever to go on a hunt and kill animals in Africa? Exotic animal populations aren't in danger because of legal hunting.
You were born into wealth just like they were, just a much smaller pie. Let's not pretend you are some inner city white boy who broke out.
Pretty obvious I wasn't born into wealth like they were. And, unlike them, the wealth that I do have came exclusively during my adult life. Any attempt to try to compare me to them is just silly; we're diametric opposites. The only thing we probably have in common is that we were born in the same country. Amusingly we don't need to pretend that I was born and raised in that environment, I was.
Yes, exotic animals are in danger because of this type of hunting. They aren't in danger
exclusively because of this type of hunting but they know what they're doing when they do this. It's this exact view that I find so off-putting.
Quote (bogie160 @ Jul 22 2016 11:03pm)
There's nothing more despicable than some jealous loser thinking he earned it the hard way while everyone else started on 3rd base.
Thanks for the fucking laugh on that one. I don't have anything to be jealous of; they don't have anything that I don't have, or that I want that I couldn't get for myself. Obviously they were born on 3rd base and only an imbecile would attempt to deny that, but I don't begrudge them for that. It's not like they have anything to be sorry for, it's just a fact of life. They didn't make that choice; the hunting is a deliberate choice.