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By Nathan Lyle | Published July 6, 2020Comments are closed.
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Trophy hunting, trapping needs fearless opposition![]()
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With today's rise in vicious hunting and cruel trapping practices, most arguments against it are about how many wolves or grizzly bears killed is arguably sustainable ecologically. Ought an evolved and supposedly wise civilization be allowing any trophy trapping and killing at all?![]()
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What are the motives driving such perverse bumper stickers as a wolf in the crosshairs of a rifle scope, with the words, "Smoke a pack a day"? What is it that brings pleasure to those who display such careless language and degradation of a noble creature?![]()
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Of course, there is the enjoyment its bearers derive from disturbing their "liberal" opponents, who they laugh at as mealy-mouthed tree huggers. But is there not also a sadism for some? A hatred of animals as representing an envied, greater physical prowess than their own? They revere their "takes", proudly photographed with them as though they have appropriated the animals' nobility as their own, while, on the other hand, often having used cruel and anti-"fair chase" hunting and barbaric trapping practices, revealing both a degradation and a paradoxical hatred of them.![]()
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They thereby manifest repudiated senses of personal inadequacies and their only wished-for or imagined manhood, all the while being - as militant psychoanalyst and philosopher Willy Apollon has put it about men who can't grow up - "like boys playing with their toy trains," only now they're playing with gruesome, medieval neck snare traps and horrific leghold traps. And employing numerous other craven and loathsome acts.![]()
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However, there is also the contempt that the Left has for trophy hunters and predator killers. A kind of dismissiveness and superiority exists among too many of us. While it is understandable to experience contempt for, or horror at, the purveyors of cruelty who masquerade as grown-ups, it is not enough.![]()
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California Wolf Center has been part of the Species Survival Plan for the endangered Mexican Gray Wolf for 25 years. CBS 8 San Diego visited us recently to discuss a historic milestone in recovery efforts – at least 241 wolves documented in the last USFWS count. There is a lot to celebrate, but we are not done yet!![]()
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