Fox hunting & the banning issues

[LiquidEyes]

Ben:

 

If your argument had been slightly more intelligent, I might have constructively pulled it apart. However frankly you are talking a load of bollocks.

 

Come back when you've sprouted a brain.

[LiquidEyes]

All the tenuous arguments about the 'tradition' behind hunting, the 'industry' that will be affected, or the fact that foxes are pests, etc etc, are skirting around the fundamental issue that the toffs do not want to admit: fox-hunting is cruel.

[Alex]

^^^ Exactly ^^^

[Lisa]

 

lot's of things happen that effects lots of peoples lively hoods, but they get over it & im sure they will cope

[kingster28]

QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Sep 16 2004, 18:41)

It should be an open-and-shut case. There is no moral argument for not banning fox-hunting. "People will lose their jobs" is not a moral argument -- end of.

Many want fox hunting banned, many want to keep fox hunting, end of.

[Alex]

Missed the point -- end of.

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (kingster28 @ Sep 17 2004, 10:52)

Many want fox hunting banned, many want to keep fox hunting, end of.

Many want to punch you in the nose.

[alasdairm]

QUOTE (kingster28 @ Sep 17 2004, 02:52)

Many want fox hunting banned, many want to keep fox hunting, end of.

that is an incredibly simplistic, meaningless stament.

 

in this country, many more people want it banned than not.

 

and since when has fox-hunting been a right? some things are not rights they are privileges.

 

alasdair

[LiquidEyes]

And besides, even if there were more people pro-hunting than pro-ban, that still wouldn't make it morally acceptable. The majority can be wrong. People can be highly motivated by self-interest.

[AlexV]

I vote to keep foxhunting.

 

AlexV

[LiquidEyes]

QUOTE (AlexV @ Sep 25 2004, 00:52)

I vote to keep foxhunting.

F*&%ing public school boys...

[AlexV]

Well actually I'd not make a decision to keep or ban foxhunting. Its a little difficult asking that question to people that live in the city and have nothing to do with the countryside. The same way one wouldnt ask someone in the countryside if they approved of changing the road layout outside your flat in a major city.

 

AlexV

[LiquidEyes]

I completely disagree.

 

Anybody with any humanity can see that cruelty to animals is unjustifiable. You don't have to live in the countryside to understand that.

[Alex]

QUOTE (AlexV @ Sep 25 2004, 01:42)

Well actually I'd not make a decision to keep or ban foxhunting. Its a little difficult asking that question to people that live in the city and have nothing to do with the countryside. The same way one wouldnt ask someone in the countryside if they approved of changing the road layout outside your flat in a major city. AlexV

I live in the countryside, I have hunted on and off through my life. I do believe that hunting by hounds should be banned.

 

And this "country V's city" argument is nonsense. We all live in Great Britain, we have elected the people in power and go by the popular vote, such is the nature of democracy.

[AlanJames]

fox hunting is neither a sport or a hunt!

 

hounds ripping a fox apart, while posh people catch up to them on horses??

 

BAn