Personally i believe that the hunting can be taken one of three ways, either the act of hunting can be seen as an act of pure evil, full of malice and cruelty, and act of necessity or a great big fun activity to pass some unwanted time!
Yeah, I don't really like the last one, well atleast when it comes to hunting animals. I suppose the whole tracking and following would be fun and exhilarating but then you still end up killing something but i suppose the fun is 'in the hunt' and not really in the act of killing, much like with fishing!
So with hunting, only considering when it isn't required to keep living, I say that it can be either a fun activity that should be looked upon proudly by fellow human as it is a sporting activity where you challenge the elements and the mind of that prized beast you wish to fell or its just a stupid, messed up way to pass the time.
I hate time. Never enough when you need it, always too much when you don't want it and forever giving me grief. Time.
I suppose it is all really in the way that you go about the hunting that makes it a good or evil thing, I mean I for one quite enjoy my occasional hunt. Even those frequent times where i don't quite get what I set out for. For me the fun is in looking and seeing what's there and of course spending time with my trusty companion/colleague.
I suppose that in a way hunting can then be compared to the normal female's act of 'shopping', I mean really the person is still going through a violent process to get what they want, often denying another person in taking something and causing some poor little, possibly Asian, creature to suffer more than is necessary.
Hunting, in my books that searching for something that you want/need often going out of one's way and hopefuly getting to travel some distance... I think it might just be because of my somewhat messed up way of thinking that makes me think hunting is similar to shopping. Anyway IT IS!
It's at this point that i realise that i failed to mention exactly what i hunt i feel the urge to mention this little detail...
My hunting, really this would put me in the bad books of any Muckhead out there, isn't killing things but just setting out and trying to find something, be it some random object (like the wooden hand that i spent three hours trying to find) or something that actually holds some kind of use, like my great big map of China. I must say finding giant maps isn't easy... well not in Perth atleast.
Ending off I must say my camera is finally on its way, i needed one for all the future adventures that i hope to have, so i can finally document my hunting trips and maybe, just maybe keep up with that activity i thought of doing last year and getting a picture of something that catches my attention up here occasionally.
I think i should go back to a post on the women in my life. They really are doing my head in right about now ' '/