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From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy )
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: The Morality of Hunting
Message-ID: <339@aero.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 11:08:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 11:08:05 1985
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In article <709@cadovax.UUCP> jefff@cadovax.UUCP (Jeffery H. Fields) writes:
>
>Richard told me that the most important thing  about  hunting  is  the
>spirit  in  which  it  is  done.   The  Native North Americans, as all
>hunter-gatherer societies, have a religious reverence  for  the  earth
>and its inhabitants.  When Richard goes hunting he prays to the spirit
>of the animal.  He prays so that the animal  can  prepare  itself  for
>death.   He  prays  that his aim will be true and that the animal will
>die with a minimum amount of pain.  He prays for  permission  to  kill
>the animal in order that he may live.
>
It is interesting to compare and contrast this attitude with ours as 
portrayed in the movie The Emerals Forrest.