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[numbskull]

When your wife has a baby are you proud? Yet you did about as much as the guy on the charter boat, it seems. Life is too short to quibble about what makes other people happy. They have their value system, you have yours. Nothing makes yours worth more than theirs (even if you can find friends to agree) other than your own perspective.......which doesn't count for much since there are 5 billion other perspectives out there. Another way to look at it, if feeling superior to other people makes you happy, they've done you a favor. Which is why I fish with Flap.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Another way to look at it, if feeling superior to other people makes you happy, they've done you a favor. Which is why I fish with Flap.

then you should really fish with me sometime..

your point is well taken. but honestly can pride justify an easy kill? taking life is taking life. but can one really feel it is ok to have that life handed to you.
whether in the overall scheme of thing my opinions matter or not. it's my strong opinion that, if you are not willing to earn taking a life. you shouldn't take that life.
put it this way.. (it's a bad comparison i know) if you get in a shoot out with another armed man. and survive. that MIGHT be something to brag about. if you shoot an unarmed man. not at all.
the tracking and stalking being the armed mans weapon.
there is NO sport at ALL. you might as well shoot at cans. they dont run. they dont fool you. they dont lose you in the brush. and certainly they dont fight back.
i cant see it being any different than stepping on an ant. you kill something. with no effort. how proud can some one be to step on an ant?

just my thoughts.
if they are happy. fine. but dont expect me to respect them for it. and should their bragging meet with hostility. as far as i am concerned good.

also.. if they hand it to you and go find it and present it on a platter. then say ok. heres a knife (r better yet nothing) now go kill it barehanded.. thats something to brag about.

quick add on.. what you do for FOOD purposes doesnt concern me much. the only people who brag about killing an animal for food are generally people who kill something that feeds a village. even then the orginal kills wasnt purely for pride but to feed. killing something worth killing for food is a different scenario than killing PURELY for bragging rights.

[thortum]

Originally Posted by numbskull

When your wife has a baby are you proud? Yet you did about as much as the guy on the charter boat, it seems. Life is too short to quibble about what makes other people happy. They have their value system, you have yours. Nothing makes yours worth more than theirs (even if you can find friends to agree) other than your own perspective.......which doesn't count for much since there are 5 billion other perspectives out there. Another way to look at it, if feeling superior to other people makes you happy, they've done you a favor. Which is why I fish with Flap.

I've had three babys and didn't brag about it - I was just "happy" about them. It's also not about knocking anyone elses "acomplishment" down in order to build mine up. It's simpley about being truethful. I'm not saying people shouldn't do those things. I'm simple saying "don't pretend to be something that you are not".

[BigBo]

Originally Posted by numbskull

When your wife has a baby are you proud? Yet you did about as much as the guy on the charter boat, it seems. Life is too short to quibble about what makes other people happy. They have their value system, you have yours. Nothing makes yours worth more than theirs (even if you can find friends to agree) other than your own perspective.......which doesn't count for much since there are 5 billion other perspectives out there. Another way to look at it, if feeling superior to other people makes you happy, they've done you a favor. Which is why I fish with Flap.

I think numbskull has it right. Myself, I don't fish to show off to others. I do it for myself because of the enjoyment I get out of it. Doesn't matter to me if others know of my accomplishments or not. When I had my boat and brought friends along, I was just as content at watching them catch.
I don't fault anyone for wanting to show off some nice catches that they're proud of though.

[thortum]

OK.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

Originally Posted by thortum

OK.

wait.. what?!?! no!! you cant just agree!! this is the internet!!

lol.

numbskull i lke your second answer better. its more clear cut.

i guess i just dont understand why you would do all that working and paying. for something you could do on your own.
for example i could pay a guy to scuba out to a fish and place my plug into his mouth. then reel it in. or i could take the time and get the fish to bite.

overall it may take a bit longer to number two to happen. but time vs money spent is probably gonna be equal. and number 2 gives a bit more self gratification.


if some one is happy then they are happy. cant argue that. just seems to me in todays day and age people sell them selves short and dont realise how happy they could be with a bit more effort and less money. .

[BigBo]

Sometimes people like to go out to dinner at a nice restaurant instead of staying home and preparing a big meal themselves. Nothing wrong with that.

[thortum]

[QUOTE=GonnaCatchABig1;539366]wait.. what?!?! no!! you cant just agree!! this is the internet!!
I guess what "set me off' on this thread was seeing someone taking the life of a magificent animal [or any animal] on TV, with no more thought, than if she was buying a pair of shoes!! She "picked" the deer she wanted to kill from the stealth cam photos. The size of the heards have to be kept under control, so she was performing a service and contributing to the economy[all good things] just don't call it "HUNTING".

[The Iceman 6]

I'm both happy and proud just to be out on the water. If I happen to catch only 1 fish, it's a bonus, several fish or a nice keeper bass is a priviledge....It's that simple for me really...

Ice