so, like with many things in life, hunting is gatekept by people who all think hunting is super fucking insanely cool or difficult or awesome or whatever. i had always suspected as much - for example you maybe enjoy listening to some good high fidelity music, but have you ever been somewhere and come into contact with an "audiophile"? suddenly you couldn't possibly comprehend the higher level of existence they live on, having spent hours and hours and thousands of dollars attaining a setup so their music sounds 1% better than yours, and then pretending that 1% is really 1 million percent. all i ever heard about was how the hunt is this difficult spiritual amazing thing that'll change your life and all this other nonsense. it's not difficult at all to track and hunt. idiots who get way too into it think it is because they either aren't actually good at the thing they say they're good at, or because they want to pretend it's difficult to justify all the expensive and completely unnecessary hunting gear they bought. anyone with a basic/cursory understanding of hunting can wander into the woods, plop themselves down for a morning, and kill something worth eating. preparing the carcass isn't some special thing either, it's just an annoying extra step between you and eating tasty meat. so in conclusion, if you hunt that's fine. everyone's gotta eat. if you think you're fucking awesome or special because you can hunt then you're a retard. it's like feeling special for knowing how to drive a manual transmission. any retard can learn to do it, just because you love it doesn't mean it's impressive.
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