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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
I'm not going to disagree with you, but the difference between the two images is striking.
The difference between the two pics is why there is little to no outrage. One depicts a hunter, one depicts aristocracy.
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So which is which? As a professional baseball player, I bet his income is at least one, if not two decimal points to the right of hers.
For all we know, he rode a quad or a snowmobile up to a cat that had been treed by hounds, put his beer in the cupholder, and killed the cat. Maybe she spent a month, every morning and evening in a ground blind, being eaten alive by tsetse flies, mosquitos, and just about everything else that bites and stings in Africa. Maybe she spent that month hiking around the bush hunting every day in 110 degree heat, morning to night, being eaten alive by everything that stings and bites in Africa.
That's the problem - we don't know in either case, and never will. So we pass judgement based upon one photo of each and our prejudices. The non-hunters and anti-hunters especially seem to harbor many preconceived notions concerning what hunting is all about, or should be all about - with nary a clue as to what it is really all about.
So, the rough looking guy with the beard somehow looks more "right" to them than the nice looking lady. Being a lady, maybe she simply took the time to clean up a bit for the photo - who knows? Guys certainly would not - the gnarlier they look in the photo the better. But please, let's not consider these things - it's way better to pass judgement over that which we know nothing about (hunting) and specific cases we know even less about.