Whereas 20 odd people on horseback with 40 plus hounds vs one fox (who as you go on to say is probably old and lame) is fair?
That's OK then. Next time a pensioner is stabbed dead, I'll be waiting for your comment "He was old and lame anyway".
Nice cherry picking. Clearly you only see what you want to see.
I recounted my experience. Not my opinion.
All you seem to be able to provide is your opinion, which isn't up to much.
Yep, oh I agree it is.
I didn't appreciate being woken up by that stupid horn on a Saturday morning, they also once blocked the entire road outside my parents house when I was trying to reverse my Impreza out of the drive, a quick burst of the throttle and the horses soon moved away, I could just tell they didnt give a crap though, no apology nothing.
We also had all the dogs steaming through our garden a couple of times, until my Dad had "words" with one of the hunt organizers.
So yea, im not a fan. And that's before we even get onto the actual stupid tradition itself and the fact that kids are almost certainly indoctrinated into hunting like a bloody religion as well I find pretty grim.
Revving your motor around horses, regardless of what the humans riding them might be doing, is an
******* thing to do. Disliking fox hunting on moral grounds, then brapping your exhaust at horses because you are slightly inconvenienced is just a little hypocritical. It sounds like you're one of those drivers who roars past ordinary horse riders on the road rather than wait and give them some room?
And, no, kids are not indoctrinated into it like some hokey religion.
I don't mean to lump you with estebanrey, but this is why I asked if people had any real experience of hunting; not just exercising their outrage or inconvenience - but to actually know enough about it to form a viewpoint not entirely based on an emotion or hearsay.
I get why some people don't like it, and I also get why some people do. I also see that no sensible discussion can take place about either viewpoint when one side has a position entirely dominated by emotion that makes them all shouty and angry and making facile comparisons with animals and old people, like the two bear any semblance of parity.
Of course there are those who will say there is no discussion to be had in the first place. I'm more of a 'have a chat about it' kind of guy as there's no progress of any sort to be had when one person stubbornly refuses to exchange anything but insults or cheap rhetoric. And that goes for both sides of this particular issue.
