LupineTroubles

I had listened to an American professor from University of Chicago talking about the manner and magnitude of which the US government is currently outright undermining entire research of American universities in a podcast. It really sounded grim and unprecedented, for narrowest of ideological brain rot too about wokeness and Israel mainly. It is especially funny and ironic in light of all the fearmongering about how "The Left" is preventing science too.

It's interesting how a derogatory term like lunatic was actually less judgmental in its original inception since it implied a common human condition rather than implying an essential character of a person.

You made those three assumptions, you further made two more that I don't talk to "rural" people and that I don't know any hunters. I am not from West and a significant portion of my family lived and lives rurally, the kind that does subsistence farming in small yards with a small barn with couple of cow or sheep and a few chickens and sells a bit of produce. I spent quite a bit of time in village houses as a child and happen to live in a place that used to be more rural until urban development absorbed it, I also regularly visit places to buy produce that actually have working dogs, cats that hunt pests and have to keep firearms to kill boars and wolves. Even in such a case is hunting rarely necessary for them and while some do hunt it's mostly to put some more food on the table for variety.

Rest of what you are saying comes back to using people killing animals as a blanket proactive justification for killing more animals for no reason. People hunting rarely for subsistence or occasionally to protect livestock does not mean killing animals in general is something to be defended as fine. Naturalistic arguments about how humans are not apart from the nature also doesn't mean much, humans already raise and kill animals at an industrial scale and hunting isn't more or less natural, it just is something that people do. Troubles that come with large scale animal husbandry with industrial methods of animal raising and killing doesn't excuse killing animals for fun. Suffering does not justify further suffering. If anything, the fact that factory farming exists should exactly be reason for people to wantonly hunt animals without specific purposes. People already greatly reduced living habitat for most other animals and driving with a car into few remaining ranges to kill the animals there with gear from a hobby shop doesn't make you a subsistence hunter.

All of that just means you like to hunt because you want to and I am going to go ahead and assume it is done so recreationally when I know many who live off the land and very rarely hunt anything as opposed to grazing a few animals and only kill boars, wolves or very rarely bears when they are within sight of their houses or grazing areas.

That's a lot of assumptions about someone made on a response specifically talking about hunting for sport isn't it?

I also find it a bit facetious to be speaking as if most hunting isn't done recreationally to kill animals for the sake of killing animals for fun, even in case of culling where most do it as part of hunting for sport and the fact it is useful is more of a beneficial secondary outcome to be used as an excuse often with great deal of jubilance.

As for the few people who actually hunt for subsistence especially due to lack of alternatives which is rare anywhere in most of the developed and indeed developing world or to otherwise guard livestock which is more common, their practical need to kill animals doesn't proactively justify anyone else killing animals for other reasons just because it happens to be same activity on most basic terms.

Both cats and dogs were kept because their function historically, cats for mostly pest control and dogs for guarding and herding. Nowadays both are kept for companionship which should not to be minimized as an important function either.

Real question is where to stand on dogs kept for hunting mostly by aristocracy and then by bourgoise for sport. Not to even mention dogs used by colonizing forces such as Spanish for tracking and subduing people.

Not paying the troops is a very common thing historically, if anything Byzantines were quite regular with payment of troops by standards of the time even troops that would not be qualified as standing or professional to be paid in most other places which is what makes late Byzantine situation exceptional.

Ladislaus the Post-Posthumous.

Children can be victims both incidentally and circumstancially while born to privilege, their victimization even if minor doesn't require rationalization this way especially when the man in question is so obviously and clearly in the wrong.

Scandinavian countries did love their forced contraceptives and forced sterilizations on women. I am always amazed how recently they relinquished eugenics policies and often with no acknowledgement of its impact let alone any goodwill compensation.

Cope with what exactly? A cursory browse through that subreddit will show you many of them aren't even living in West and many that do also are from non-Western backgrounds. Same goes with popular mobile AI-related dating apps.

They are only fighting it insofar to protect their own profits. They happily trained all data on libgen and archive.org for free and now that most LLM models have that data the push to block access to such sites intensified. When it comes to these things laws are always weaponized.

This is not a phenomenon limited to west at all.