re: Emery Jones goes hunting

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What about riding horses? If the horse rode you would you want to do it?

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Pretty sure riding a horse doesn't kill the horse. Also, horses that are ridden in almost every instance have a long relationship with their rider. But for example, hiding behind trees to kill deer or in a duck blind to hunt ducks....hmmmm, hardly compares to trench warfare in WW1 does it?

I do put keeping the population of certain animals under control obviously very acceptable when if they weren't hunted the species would suffer due to its own overpopulation...not enough food, etc. That also goes to preventing some animals from causing dangerous reduction in the numbers of other species thus the predators need to be controlled. But hunting just for fun in a one-sided exercises...not very tough or brave in my book. Just an exercise in ego.