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My family does not make sense to me.
M/16
My family is very into hunting and I'm a vegitarian so I don't hold the same idea about it that they do. They say that deer are the most beautiful animals in Pennsylvaina, and that they are the most amazing animals around. How can they say this and look forward to killing them? I've asked them before but they never could give me a solid answer. It'd make more sense to observe them in nature instead of killing them and praising them for how wonderful they are. Dose any one have an idea why?
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I really can't tell you why individuals would think one thing and preach another. In this case it probably has something to do with tradition and what someone else in the family taught them long ago about hunting and enjoying it.
That's why they can't answer you because they have never thought of it from any other perspective that what they are doing if only for sort isn't right.
I thin what you need to do is confront them again. Tell them that you cannot understand why they would call deer the most beautiful animals in PA. yet enjoy hunting them for sport and or eating them when in fact they don't need to. Tell them that's a conflicting message to send to a kid and expect them to figure out.
See what answer you get when you ask them to be brutally honest about why they choose to hunt these or any other animal and don't let them off with deflecting the question. Get your answer.
They probably have trouble justifying it to themselves and or have never thought about it. Make them think about it and explain your vegetarianism and what drives it. Hopefully, if you keep challenging them and pressing for a real answer you'll get one. They can't snow you.
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