HankBuck
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@rookhawk - CONGRATULATIONS on finding a way to bring RELIGION into this thread AND You were able to include 3 different religions at that !! Now we can enjoy even more self righteous experts on Ethics AND Religion ——ALL in one Thread``. Maybe there is a “Divine” presence taking over because most of those expressing strong opinions have Never even met MS - but seem to be All Knowing and omnipotent.Point of order. On the Hippo charges I saw in the Sullivan videos they were all on land and completely messed up. The Hippo was on land, ornery as can be, suffering from some puncture or slash wound from another hippo. As such, they are sunburned and miserable, yet they cannot go to the water because of a prior wound unrelated to the hunter. This is a common reason to find Hippos on land rather than in the water.
I have no dog in this hunt, but Sullivan is no special magician, he's finding hippos on terra firma for the same reasons we usually do. Chasing them back to water, then forcing them to charge back to the land in this circumstance is all about ego, not about a quick death for the animal.
To the secular humanists reading this, make up your own morality and feel free to love or hate his treatment of his quarry. However, to the followers of western religion Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, I'd remind you that one of the core tenants of the faiths is that we are superior to animals because of our desire to reduce suffering.
Sullivan is the antithesis of the notion of expeditious effort to reduce suffering. Put another way, according to the people of the book, his conduct is unwholesome and animalistic.
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