It's obvious from the contents of some of these threads which posters have spent most of their lives fighting for survival in the "concrete jungle."
Some of you people really are totally divorced from the realities of the natural world and basic human instincts, aren't you?
You've never stalked prey with a weapon in your hand, nor felt the hair on the back of your neck stand on end and all five senses shift into overdrive when that prey is sighted. The pounding heart, shortness of breath, tunnel vision...total fixation on that prey and its movements.
Basic instinct...which some of us are privileged to experience and enjoy. Yes, enjoy. While you, you poor city-slobs, have those instincts buried under heavy layers of "civilization" and "environmental ethics."
As I have said in earlier threads, trying to apply emotional human morality to the amoral natural world is simple minded.
Environmental ethics have been the bane of people and wildlife in many areas of the world, often being counter-productive to their desired goals. The $50,000 that guy spent on his polar-bear hunt pumped badly needed revenue into one of the most economically depressed areas in the Northern Hemisphere. These hunts are extremely rare and pose no real threat to the population.
Environmental ethics makes it impossible for Native American tribes of the far North to exploit the natural resources of the areas they and their ancestors have occupied for nearly 40,000 years for their own economic benefit. They have become economic captives of their beautiful environments. As surely as they try to obtain permission to drill for oil or other resources in their areas, some well-fed, white, pasty-faced, flushed with money, environmentalist from the lower-48 starts some witless campaign to prevent them from doing so.
Environmentalists command about as much respect among these people as the anti-war movement did during the 1960's.
