Capt Jim Wyatt
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Sure I judge you or others based on their actions. We humans moved on from being hunter gatherers long time ago. I got an education and a job to be able to feed my self and for not having to slaughter what I eat my self. You make a hedonist choice, do not expect roses. We are living at the luckier parts of the world, we already use way more of earth resources than our share, we could use few less lobsters or fish.That's a pretty broad brush. Are you suggesting that I need to make excuses for shooting a fish to eat? For catching a lobster? For picking up a megalodon tooth? They are all pretty exciting events for me. Do you think less of me for this? If so, that says a lot more about you, than it does about me.
Sure I judge you or others based on their actions. We humans moved on from being hunter gatherers long time ago. I got an education and a job to be able to feed my self and for not having to slaughter what I eat my self. You make a hedonist choice, do not expect roses. We are living at the luckier parts of the world, we already use way more of earth resources than our share, we could use few less lobsters or fish.
...you are calling someone "hedonistic" because they obtain their own food....?
get off your high horse....how is it any more moral to pay someone to catch a fish for you than to do it yourself?
That's a pretty broad brush. Are you suggesting that I need to make excuses for shooting a fish to eat? For catching a lobster? For picking up a megalodon tooth? They are all pretty exciting events for me. Do you think less of me for this? If so, that says a lot more about you, than it does about me.
No he called him self that. " They are all pretty exciting events for me." means thrill seeking. This is in my view hedonism. If I need to choose between the man pays the fisher and the man who kills for excitement, I would choose the first. How hard is this to grasp?
I occasionally read about that. While I definitely am not a deliberate rule breaker, I don't really understand the sentiment. Unless there's still bodies inside of course, then I think you'd have to be pretty sick to even go in there unless it was something like a body recovery. 50 year old bones? Wouldn't have occurred to me not to go in there and take souvenirs if it weren't such a hot topic.Casualties of warfare have different considerations, as do wrecks that are owned by someone. I'm not an expert on that type of law.
Finding excitement while obtaining some of your own food is not killing for excitement. That's a false equivalence. Most living creatures exist through killing and consuming other living creatures. That's the fundamental nature of things. Experiencing the undersea world involves watching a constant process of killing and consumption, from corals catching live plankton in their tiny tentacles to sharks hunting down other sea creatures. Killing and eating seem to be the primary activity among oceanic inhabitants. People in pre-industrial times spent much of their time in the same manner. Food shopping and going out to eat are really just indirect hunter/gatherer activities.No he called him self that. " They are all pretty exciting events for me." means thrill seeking. This is in my view hedonism. If I need to choose between the man pays the fisher and the man who kills for excitement, I would choose the first. How hard is this to grasp?
Finding excitement while obtaining some of your own food is not killing for excitement. That's a false equivalence. Most living creatures exist through killing and consuming other living creatures. That's the fundamental nature of things. Experiencing the undersea world involves watching a constant process of killing and consumption, from corals catching live plankton in their tiny tentacles to sharks hunting down other sea creatures. Killing and eating seem to be the primary activity among oceanic inhabitants. People in pre-industrial times spent much of their time in the same manner. Food shopping and going out to eat are really just indirect hunter/gatherer activities.
So you are ok with paying somebody to catch the fish for you that used a net drug across the ocean floor pulling up anything in it's path and what is not wanted dies and gets thrown back in the water? Out of site out of mind I guess. But you look down on the man that went and shot his own fish for dinner that affected nothing but that one fish ok I grasp that!No he called him self that. " They are all pretty exciting events for me." means thrill seeking. This is in my view hedonism. If I need to choose between the man pays the fisher and the man who kills for excitement, I would choose the first. How hard is this to grasp?