Post by iant on Aug 30, 2015 22:39:48 GMT
Ian Taylor
Mr. Vitale
AP English 11
30 August 2015
As many others have said in this thread, the title of "Is Hunting Ethical" by Ann S. Causey was, indeed, an attention grabber. Hunting is something that can be thought of as pointless and a waste of life and resources by some, and as a way of living and a way of life as a human by others. The author, like myself, has a love for animals. The way she started off the essay was a bit saddening and made me want to stop reading it simply because I thought it was going to be a sob story that wasn't worth my time- and boy was I wrong. The author went on to show her love for animals, as well as showing the other side of people and telling the reader on why hunting could be considered a good thing. Having that many emotions and having the lack of being bias as a write made me love the read immediately. Throughout the entire essay I was constantly asking myself if it was right, or if it wasn't, but now I have an answer.
After thinking about hunting from both main perspectives, I have come to a conclusion that I can respect animal lovers and hunters. However, I have a more advanced/detailed version of "respect" for hunters. To be a hunter is to gather food by killing another animal so that you, or your family, can live. This means that hunting for sport is hardly respected by me, and only in scenarios where the hunter is killing to reduce an over-populated animal is when I stop being so anal about it. The author makes some of the killing immoral and not justified, but as long as the hunter is using up the entire body of the dead animal, I can agree with it (that means that hunting for sport is a major no-no in that aspect).
Overall this was a very enlightening read that I can agree with and I would be more than happy to read another passage just like this one.
Mr. Vitale
AP English 11
30 August 2015
As many others have said in this thread, the title of "Is Hunting Ethical" by Ann S. Causey was, indeed, an attention grabber. Hunting is something that can be thought of as pointless and a waste of life and resources by some, and as a way of living and a way of life as a human by others. The author, like myself, has a love for animals. The way she started off the essay was a bit saddening and made me want to stop reading it simply because I thought it was going to be a sob story that wasn't worth my time- and boy was I wrong. The author went on to show her love for animals, as well as showing the other side of people and telling the reader on why hunting could be considered a good thing. Having that many emotions and having the lack of being bias as a write made me love the read immediately. Throughout the entire essay I was constantly asking myself if it was right, or if it wasn't, but now I have an answer.
After thinking about hunting from both main perspectives, I have come to a conclusion that I can respect animal lovers and hunters. However, I have a more advanced/detailed version of "respect" for hunters. To be a hunter is to gather food by killing another animal so that you, or your family, can live. This means that hunting for sport is hardly respected by me, and only in scenarios where the hunter is killing to reduce an over-populated animal is when I stop being so anal about it. The author makes some of the killing immoral and not justified, but as long as the hunter is using up the entire body of the dead animal, I can agree with it (that means that hunting for sport is a major no-no in that aspect).
Overall this was a very enlightening read that I can agree with and I would be more than happy to read another passage just like this one.
