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Fox hunting alive and well in Wales

chio said:
How can you justify hoping someone will seriously injure themselves simply for chasing a few foxes around? It makes you sound like a deranged nutter.
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Erm - :D - they're not just 'chasing foxes about'. They're chasing them to their deaths.

Of course justice is a strange thing. The law allows (very pitiful) penalties for people who torture domestic creatures to death. The killing of animals for foods is perfectly allowable.

But very few practises involving the torture of animals for fun are still allowable by law. It's a class thing. Live on a sink estate and attend the destruction of bull terriers in a hay ring and the law will take a very dim view. Chase their near cousin, the fox, with a red jacket, cut-glass accent and we close our eyes and hope you're following a scent. If you happen to break your neck doing so then surely that's part and parcel of a 'sport' where some creature inevitably loses it's life?
 
But someone on this thread said they 'hoped' they would fall and break their necks- I don't think human life is comparable to fox life.
 
lewislewis said:
But someone on this thread said they 'hoped' they would fall and break their necks- I don't think human life is comparable to fox life.
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But if they do break their necks in this particular pursuit, they certainly disagree with you, don't they?

Hey, if it can happen to superman...
 
lewislewis said:
Fine. But 'hoping' it happens is low. Agreed?
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Naaaa.

It's like soldiers get killed in their line of duty. All trained killers shouldn't be carrying out their duties from a position of comfort. Disagree if you're a duncey.
 
scarecrow said:
Naaaa.

It's like soldiers get killed in their line of duty. All trained killers shouldn't be carrying out their duties from a position of comfort. Disagree if you're a duncey.
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As much as I opposed the war in Iraq and still do, I didn't 'hope' soldiers died in it.

Edited to add- Basically my opinion is its wrong to wish death on people, its immature too.
 
chio said:
How does these people going out and chasing foxes around for the day affect your life?
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It doesn't affect my life at all. Are you suggesting that people should only be concerned with things that directly affect them?
 
Geri said:
I think the law should have been a lot stronger - I would have forced the hunts to disband.

Ah well - here's hoping some of them fall off and break their necks.
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It was an understandable sentiment because this class of people are basically riding roughshod over the law. Imagine the outcry if it had been black ghansters or football hooligans rather than upper class knobs who had invaded the floor of the house of commons that time. It's perfectly right what someone said about the disapprobation of working class pursuits like dog fighting and yet the near sympathy even across the liberal media when it concerns abolishing a passtime of the ruling class. The problem is however blatantly the hunt supporters flout the law - you' ll have a job getting the judges to convict, because many of the judges are themselves out partcipating in the hunts.
 
lewislewis said:
All i said was its wrong to hope people die, what's your problem .
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I didn't say I wanted anyone to die, you fucking knob-end.

Hunters are scum - "the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible" as Oscar Wilde put it.
 
Are there not more slightly important and pressing issues facing the people of Wales - and indeed the whole if the UK - that are worth worring about rather than fucking foxhunting?

Who gives a fuck about some toffs chasing foxes in the grand scheme of things? :confused:
 
Pickman's model said:
foxhunting's not just about chasing a fucking fox.

it's the ruling class asserting themselves and showing people in the countryside who's top dog. it's very much a class issue.
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Aye, thats probably why the only prosecutions that have resulted from it (AFAIK) were some working class lads from Liverpool coursing a hare. :(
 
militant atheist said:
Just got back from a trip into Welshpool and horrified to see several hundred hunt supporters applauding the local hunt riding through the middle of town. :eek: :eek:

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You must have missed national media coverage about hunting over the last few days. The government were told the law was unworkable, and it is proving to be just that.
 
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