The poll idea.....

[MagiKelly]

Just my views as I say. Also, now hunting with hounds but what next?

Bill

Shooting then fishing, watch this space.

[tenbears10]

Shooting then fishing, watch this space.

Bushcraft? all those dangerous knives and snaring of poor wild animals.

Bill

[dtalbot]

Finally ask yourself this: Just because you don't like something, is that really justification for making those who do it criminals?

BTW I am not a hunt follower, but I do know a wee bit about it.

Exactly,
I've never hunted but have no desire to stop it. Far more animal suffering happens in getting bargain priced meat and eggs onto the supermarket shelves each day than in hunting in a year.
And if hunting goes which is next, no more lamping or snaring rabbits for the pot? or catching fish or stalking deer?
Lots more unpleasant minorities are in politics but we don't ban them!
Cheers
David

[JakeR]

If it got ridiculous i'd just leave the country.

[MagiKelly]

If it got ridiculous i'd just leave the country.

If it got ridiculous you would not be allowed to leave the country :wink:

[Tantalus]

hahahah John

just wait until the new compulsory ID cards are introduced

not to mention the sea angling permit

by the way does anyone remember the dog license ?

it proved so ineffective that it was scrapped but now they want to ban dogs from doing ....well..... Doggy things

The world is slowly going mad IMHO

would a government ban on foxes raiding chicken coops be a potential solution??

Tant

[MagiKelly]

hahahah John

just wait until the new compulsory ID cards are introduced

I wonder if they will have a nice sharp cutting edge ):

[JakeR]

I dont think i would need a great excuse to move to South Africa, its a second home to me afterall. Perhaps i should go on "holiday" and never return. Like hell anyone could find someone weho doesnt want to be found in Neiwoudtville (its in the middle of no-where BTW, but absolutely stunning nonetheless)

[dtalbot]

I wonder if they will have a nice sharp cutting edge ):

Well, every bit of plastic in my wallet currently has an edge quite good enough for things other than the intended purpose! They conifiscate your nail scisors at the airport but leave your credit cards and keys :?:
World gone mad, or just lacking imagination
David

[Simon]

Decartes! :wink:

Well put simon, took me a few reads to actually get what you were saying though! that certainly one way of putting it, but i think (if i have read correctly) fear is no longer a role player in that league, if you get me.

How to explain how wrong you are, without writing an essay :rolmao:

We are genetically programmed with fear as a large part of our make up ... it's an evolutionary inheritance and was once, as you put it a major role player ... infact THE major role player as it took the lions share of our awareness... that genetic structure for fear is still there ... and so is the fear ... just because it doesn't take a frontal position in our awareness .. doesn't mean it isn't there.

We have cunningly renamed it neurosis, stress, anxiety ...... We don't need the fear quite as much yet it still exists and yet we make a lot of effort to deny our fears to ourselves ... yet within our society we feed off fear, we have created a society with fear, all be it under it's new titles, it still has the same physiological effect of stimulating our bodies with epinephrines ... we create things to fear ... that is why we make and watch scary movies .. and why some people read the Daily Mail (as a prime example), and other newspapers, or at least the tabloids, because they sell, primarily, by feeding the public their fears, fears that are hungry for stimulus. I'm not to sure whether the need for fear is physiological or psychological... but it definitely affects both aspects of us ... perhaps it's both

Modern society isn't exactly driven by fear, but rather the need to distract ourselves from our fears ... so that we don't spend too much time contemplating the conflict in us, most notably the Primary Neurosis. Yet the fears still exist under the new names of stress and anxiety .. and we have created our modern world to contain lots of stress and anxiety, we have, to all intents and purpose, built our modern society to contain stress and anxiety, it was a subconscious choice.

we feed our fears within our subconscious at the same time as trying to deny them from our consciousness

go figure :?: