...the crime that is hunting. Hunting animals is morally wrong and completely inhuman. These senseless and cruel killings are all over the world in urban areas, rural areas, and in the wild. What will it take to stop this horrendous crime? Animals feel pain just like humans do. There are many weapons hunters use to injure these animals but the most popular are guns, bows, and traps. When these animals are wounded they usually are only severely injured. Therefore making them die a prolonged painful death. The most painful weapons for the animals are bows and traps. According to the IDA, “A report summarizing 24 studies of bow hunting demonstrated that there is little chance that deer die instantly when struck, but more typically bow hunters take an average of 14 shots (!) to kill an animal, and there is a 54% wounding and crippling rate” (“Anti-hunting”). Although the use of firearms may kill the animal quickly it still is a major problem. The noise of the firearms inflicts stress and horror among other animals. This diminishes and disturbs animals ability to eat,...
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...Why must humans remain dominant over nature? Man takes so many things from nature and in return gives nothing. People disrespect nature with killing, global warming, and littering, which causes nature to be at a disadvantage. Hunting for game or sport is wrong. The idea of hunting is to make every part of the animal useful. Man causes nature to be at risk through hunting. It is understandable to hunt an animal and eat the meat from the animal, but the "Pros and Cons of Hunting" article says that "Some hunters will kill an animal and not even eat the meat" and that is wrong, it is cruel. During hunting, animals may experience pain and suffering, as if their life is nothing to us. "Pros and Cons of Hunting" also says that "Another con of hunting...
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...feline unknowing of the next course of events, begins to pant in the sun. The string is released and the poor lion is hit. Within the next 40 hours the great predator of Africa has now become the prey. Cecil the Southwest African lion thought it is just another day in paradise, but Walter Palmer had another plan. Trophy hunting is a serious issue in many countries. Big-game hunters go out and try to find rare animals to bring home as a trophy. Many of these hunters have rooms full of taxidimed animals....
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...Definitions, Claims, Support & Warrants and Artistotle & Toulmin Assignment Argument One: For deer hunting to be made illegal in Illinois Main claim - Hunting should be made illegal in Illinois it seems to be a unsafe and ineffective form of recreation . Key terms in the main claim - Unsafe = The fact that there is over 100 hunting deaths in the United States every year Illegal = Forbidden by law Recreation = Activity done for enjoyment when one is not working Support: 3 reasons/sub-claims- Hunting endangers the whole entire community at times, not just the willing hunters Studies have shown that car and deer collisions increase during hunting season. (Reasoning for this is because the deer are scared in the woods and run wildly right into unseen traffic) Hunting is unethical coming from the animals rights Rebuttals: give two - It is wrong because we are not letting nature do its job and letting it run its course like it should (whether it be sick or starving, It doesn't matter) It is not morally correct to go out killing and wounding animals Concession: give one - I think that we could compromise and make there be a specific laws on how many we could kill a year… How I plan to appeal to the audience using: - Ethos (how I will get my audience to trust me) - 1. I will talk about all of the stories and facts that goes wrong during the hunting accidents to show my accuracy to gain trust in people - Logos (what sort of evidence, reasoning,rational...
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...Haylee Bowers Research Paper 11/20/13 In today’s society, cruelty towards animals is growing rapidly because people don’t understand the value of an animal’s life. People all around the world use and abuse animals as if it was some kind of national sport, and everybody is competing for the first place gold medal. Ever year millions of animals are being beaten and starved because of heartless people. Animal cruelty is a social issue that many people don’t understand. All the people who abuse animals don’t understand when they are harming an innocent animal are going to continue to do it until they are shown what they are doing wrong. Each type of abuse has certain patterns that scientists can study and find out why people commit the crimes they do. Animal cruelty is broken down into two categories, which are active and passive. Active cruelty is also known as NAI (non-accidental injury). NAI is when a person has malicious intent so fierce that they deliberately and intentionally cause harm to an animal. On the other hand with passive cruelty a person doesn’t intentionally cause harm to the animal, they simple neglect it by giving it no attention. While I was doing the research for this essay, I thought non-stop about how a human being could break a dogs leg, back, or even neck and feel no sympathy for the dog? Are some people in this world that heartless that they have no feelings for other living things? I wonder if you asked a person that has abused an animal if they...
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...Rainsford Justified Rainsford was justified in killing Zaroff because the general killed several people before attempting to kill Rainsford. Many more people would die if Rainsford didn’t kill him. While Rainsford and the general sat at the great table in general Zaroff’s palatial chateau. The two men start to talk about hunting and how the general has found a new animal to hunt when Rainsford figures out that he is hunting humans. So then Rainsford confronts him by saying, “But they are men” and the general replies with, “that is why I hunt them. It gives me pleasure” (Connell 4). This quote proves that the general hunts humans for pleasure and that he is crazy. As a general rule, no human with a right mind hunts humans for pleasure. They...
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...now feeling safer if we get rid of the second amendment.The second amendment has been around since 1791. Almost three hundred years, since the amendment was ratified. But do to recent events some people have questioned if we should be given the right to bear arms. To be fair it is reasonable to see why we shouldn’t have the right to have guns since it can cause more deadly incidents. But guns can be safe if treated in the right manner. But some people don’t chose to be safe.Even though gunsmiths have been making guns more safe...
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...and hav guns, Is so that they can have it for collection or for hunters that like to go hunting on the different seasons(3). Also on the other people by the guns o have a collection, they buy them as a hobby because that's what they like to do. And buy all this killing and everything their going to make it harder for the people that buy guns to go hunting and for collections hader to buy them at the store for th good reason. They say that the government is giving public safety measures but if they had public safety measures then there wouldn't be people dying all the time around the world from gun wounds or gun shouts(3). The get to the end of this they need to make gun laws more strict for some people that are guns for no use at all. If they don't at least try to make the gun laws harder then there's going to be more people to more dumb things as i unhide a gun in there jacket and go to a school, hide it in a bag and take it to a public place where they can kill a lot of people that have no reason to die. There's only 2.5 million defensive cases per year. Which means that the rest of the cases are for people that are being killed or the ones that are killing another person(3). The 2nd amendment says that the we the people have the right to bear arms and it shall not be infringed. Which means citizens own their own guns, if people allowed to own guns then why are the gun control laws(4). Making gun control laws harder to get it's going to make...
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...Most Dangerous Game In the story “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Rainsford the main character is trapped on an island with a crazy hunter who was bored with hunting found a way to spice things he hunt people. Many parts in the story make people think about why he would do such a thing hunt people. When General Zaroff explains his game of hunting to Rainsford it is obvious that to hunt people is wrong. One thing in the story is hard to answer it is when Rainsford talks to his friend. It is when Rainsford classifies the world into two categories the hunters and the hunties. The story says “My hand were made for the trigger…”(pg 223 Connell) and for the hunters that is how they feel but, that is how the people in the world feel...
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...Hunting is here to stay whether you are for or against it. So why not produce extra animals, such as deer, to keep the populations up? Doris Lin wrote an article called “Hunting isn’t the Answer to Animal ‘Pests.” When, in fact, it’s not the entire answer but it is part of the solution. She states that if we just build more fences and stop planting foliage that the deer and bear like, that the animals will stop being “pests.” This is NOT the solution. She also makes the point that we are over producing these animals just so that people can go on with their normal hunting habits. Only her view of it all is that it’s wrong. In my opinion the fact that we are producing more animals is a very smart thing to do. Even though there are many...
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...ago, but we’ve evolved. Most animals have evolved too, but that does not give them the same right as a human being. I support Machan’s views on animal rights and livelihood. Animals should not be granted with the same right as we are, as humans. Animals are not even close to being in the same league as humans. Yes animals can feel pain and emotion, but that does not give them rights to freedom that humans have. I think that the treatment of animals should be learned at a young age. Growing up on a farm, I learned how to treat animals. There is a certain amount of respect that everyone should give to animals. You shouldn’t really be cruel to them. What is the purpose of making a living thing suffer? There is no purpose and its just wrong. Being on a farm you know the boundaries when it comes to animals and yourself. I had pets and then I had animals. Cats and dogs are usually the favorites when it comes to having pets. They give you pleasure. Chickens and ducks were there for the sole purpose to be eaten, sold, or for eggs. When on a farm, you grow attached to certain animals more easily than others. I would never get attached to cows, because I knew that they wouldn’t be around very long. We would process them. That’s what they are for. I mean I can’t really say that animals are solely here on this planet for our purposes, but when it comes down to my well being, the animal’s life is not really considered. When driving down a road late at night or during the day. Are...
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...were more easily accessible to people taking advantage of the purge. Also, during the beginning of the purge, a program plays on televisions and radios announcing the commencement of the purge and the exemptions that apply. One of the exemptions is that “government officials ranking 10 or higher” are exempt from being purged (The Purge, 2013). This goes to show that an individual is safe as long as they are of high status, while lower class individuals are considered expendable. Once we meet the Fine Gang, we are given another example of conflict theory. The Fine Gang leader refers to his group as the “Haves” and those they are hunting as the “Have Nots,” meaning that there is no other reason they are hunting the particular person that took refuge in Mr. Sandin’s home other than because he is poor (The Purge, 2013). The man they are hunting did no wrong unto them, but they are okay with killing him, because the Fine Gang views themselves as superior to individuals in lower classes. Moving on to the second film, The Purge: Anarchy, we are again given a multitude of conflict theory examples of crime. Let’s start with the wealthy family who essentially bought Papa near the beginning of the film. Because Papa had an illness that was keeping his daughter and granddaughter in poverty, he chose to be a “martyr” and be bought by a wealthy family, so they could purge him in the comfort and safety of their home. This is an option available to those in upper classes, while individuals in...
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...proposed the idea but it had to have been early 1800’s. The first time it became a real thing was in 1970 by richard D. Ryder and was known as speciesism. There are plenty of rights for animals and I will be giving you the top 9 of them which are: Human overpopulation, property status of animals, veganism, factory farming, fish and fishing, animal experimentation (vivisection), hunting, fur, and animals...
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...facing, to view it both locally and globally, and to critically analyse both sides of the argument presented. Furthermore, to view how social environments are directly affected by the issue and to look at a media campaign that it relates to it considering constructionism, claims making and framing. And then to conclude, having viewed all points, what my new (if at all different) assumptions are. Hunting, to survive, has been a part of human culture for centuries, in the past it has been a necessary tool and skill, however, today most people live in a world where it is no longer a required in order to provide basic needs to our families. Trophy hunting, as a sport, can be dated as far back to the early 1800s in southern and central Europe. Hunters would kill game for the sole purpose of its pelt or head for display purposes and no other parts of the animal were used and were wasted. The oxford dictionary recognizes the word trophy as a representation associated with or symbolic of recognition or reward and / or anything serving as a token or evidence of victory or skill. Today, trophy hunting is a game of animal versus machine and limited skill is actually required. The issue...
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... when they made a wrong turn under the Golden Gate Bridge, and into the San Francisco Bay. They landed over 90 miles away from the Pacific Ocean that they needed to return to for survival. Their skin began showing signs of distress and injury, and the public decided it was time to get involved. They began sending in all their ideas on how the whales could be coaxed back through the river, into the bay, and off to the ocean. They sent e-mails, made phone calls and visits to government agencies, and came up with countless original ideas that they wanted to share with officials. The longer time went on, the more worried people were becoming about these whales. Fortunately, the Coast Guard was eventually successful in coaxing the whales back through the channel and out to the Pacific after many failed attempts. Why do people care so much about other living creatures? Another question I must bring up is should we be spending so much time and effort on them when there are many other human needs of people that need to be met around the world? I will be connecting many ethical philosophies to this idea of Animal Rights throughout this discussion, and hopefully you will be able to formulate your own moral stance to the answers of those questions. Animal Rights isn’t seen only in the saving of creatures that need rescued. Every year, millions of people go hunting. Sometimes they are successful in the hunt, and sometimes they are not. Many say that hunting is part of the food...
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