• SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Probably fine for hunters and marksmen as long as they store them safely. Probably more harmful than good as personal protection for the general public.

    Organised workers with guns would be awesome and under no pretenses etc. but until we have enough organised workers to make that happen I'm kind of happy to live in a place where nazis can't just waltz into a gun store and buy an AK-47.

      • FemboyStalin [she/her,any]
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        1 year ago

        There's a lot of reasons people hunt. Idk if I'd say a big blanket statement like that.

        • putsthecultinculture [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Like for the rare exceptions with indigenous people who are entitled to it, hunting is wrong in every other circumstance.

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Not to start a struggle session, but literally every culture in the world hunts. If hunting is bad then it's bad for everyone.

          • KoboldKomrade [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            :downbear: Responsible hunting replaces the predators that our ancestors destroyed or adds a predator to invasive species. Ideally we'd have the wolves back, but some places like the everglades would be even worse off if it weren't for game management.

        • Dryad [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          That doesn't mean every opinion is equally valid. "Guns are good because people can use them to murder innocents" simply does not follow

            • DictatrshipOfTheseus [comrade/them, any]
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              1 year ago

              It is possible to be opposed to two different things simultaneously that are both bad, despite the fact that one is worse than the other. Never thought I'd have to explain that very simple concept here. Also, while I am concerned about the suffering of animals being hunted, I am likewise concerned about the harm that perpetuating the systemic myth of "hunting is 'good for conservation'" does to actual conservation.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Insisting that the entire science of ecological conservation was made up to provide an excuse for sport hunting is a hell of a move

              • DictatrshipOfTheseus [comrade/them, any]
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                1 year ago

                Also, I never claimed that the entirety of conservation is based on the false premise that human intervention by killing wildlife is somehow good ecologically. But it is in fact a part of it.

                This thread reminds me of the gymnastics that pundits perform to make it seem like coal mining is akshually good for curbing the effects of climate change.

              • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                Correct, capitalist 'economics' is a motivated construct. You can do anything you need to with money, because it isn't real. You can lend it, transfer it, or even borrow it from the future. It is incredibly malleable because it's only constraints are social.

                Ecological functions exist with or without us. The demands of a biosphere are concrete and fundamental. You can't lend species diversity, transfer a food web or borrow a soil microboime from the future. If an imbalance exists in nature, no amount of creative accounting will erase it's effects.

                A human-made approach towards a human-made problem occurring within a human-made system is not comparable to a human-made approach towards a thermodynamics problem as old as life.