At 12:52 PM 11/28/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the
>easiest way possible -- simply because we can. Neo-cons? > Instead, we have people who think it would be "sporting" to hunt and kill >animals by remote-control with their computer. That sort of thinking is >just plain sick. Except when its the US military doing it... > Where exactly is the "sport''? More importantly, where is the hunt? > > Webster's New World Dictionary defines "hunt'' this way: "1.) to go out to >kill or catch (game) for food or sport; 2. to search eagerly or carefully >for; try to find 3. a.) to pursue; chase; drive b) to hound; harry, >persecute 4. a) to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game'' >and on and on in that vein. How do they define war? > Nowhere is there any mention of sitting in a home or office, watching a >computer-display screen and punching buttons. If that qualifies as hunting, >no one really need ever hunt again because we've then reduced the killing >of animals to the shooting of pictures. How does the author feel about rifled barrels? Chemical propellants in general? Is an atlatl moral? How about a 'net-connected atlatl? Just curious.