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Borg_10501 t1_ixvct8w wrote

Reply to comment by CodeMonkey789 in 1st day of rifle season --- good luck to all you hunters! by Bocephus8892

I tried telling someone that once. Their excuse was, "Well, dogs are pets and deer aren't." As if that makes any difference from a biological perspective. The reality is, there's a lot of people out there that find great joy in killing things even though none of them will directly admit it.

And as we know from studies, there's a high correlation between violence against animals and violence against people.

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CodeMonkey789 t1_ixvex64 wrote

Exactly. And some of it is simply a violent tradition - violence can be taught to children and people grow up to put on mental blinders to protect themselves from the cognitive dissonance. (Hence the downvotes for asking not to kill. People’s defense system is triggered)

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