'It's primeval, not evil': The brutal civil servant who loves killing and skinning elephants in the wild screams the headline in the Daily Mail, a UK tabloid newspaper. Reported the same day as pile-up on the M5 motorway that killed 7 and injured over 50, is this really news? Are we shocked that people hunt? Does it matter that this man is a civil servant? Does it matter that he claims to have killed over 300 creatures? Is he brutal? Or as he himself states, is hunting natural and are its critics hipocrites who are happy to torture animals for fresh meat at home? Read the article here.
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Killing animals is totally unfair, independently of the economic benefits this will provide to the area which has these animals.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, human beings have the ability of distinguishing what is ethical and what is not. Therefore we have the possibility of choosing and reasoning between what is right and what not, and we should consider the issue of whether it is ethical to murder animals, and we should get in the skin of the animal that will be killed.
If we go back in the past we also found that human beings were once enslaved and treated unfairly and this produced great economic benefits. Therefore, now our days we see slavery as a cruel, atrocious thing. If we do see things like this, then we should not approve animal slavery or animal hunting just for entertainment.
Marina Segura
This is such terrible news! I was totally shocked when I saw the picture. Seeing that man above the innocent elephant, sitting there as if it was the most normal thing to do... I find it completely inhuman, shameful, outrageous, shocking and most of all offensive.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, after I read the article and saw the pictures, I saw that this man finds himself proud of his hobby. 'I enjoy hunting, its primeval. When I look through the scope I don't see a living thing, its a target.' Mr. Barrett, ‘feels no guilt’, he is now retired and has killed over 300 animals in Africa. Personally, if I had authority I would definitely denounce this man or even pay him a psychologist as animals have a right to live and he does not see it as normal. We live in the 21st century and we should react, we should treat the world the way it should be treated. Nature surrounds us, is part of us and part of humanity. We should treat them right. Mr. Barrett has no sense of evolution. He will find himself with an addiction to kill and carry dead bodies. What if no animals are left? Who will be next? Maybe human beings…
I totally agree with what Marina said. Mr. Barrett should find another ‘entertainment’ to satisfy his free time. It is completely immoral and evil, in my point of view, and of course it is primeval. The Free Online Dictionary states the definition of primeval as the following: ‘Of or relating to an earliest or original stage or state; primeval.’ Hunting started many years ago, when primitive Neanderthals used to hunt for them to survive. Mr. Barrett has to understand that we no longer live in that type of society, we have evolved. So this activity should be now forbidden.
‘Reported the same day as pile-up on the M5 motorway that killed 7 and injured over 50, is this really news?’ Of course it is news. Animals’ life must concern society. I am not saying that animals’ life is more important than proper human being lives. But the fact that a human being finds entertainment in killing and making suffer animals is not right. Animals, like us, are also living creatures. He should entertain himself reading a book or studying a career.
It is devastating having to know that there are still men like this who kill to satisfy and justify their ego and superiority. This type of behavior was seen centuries ago, we have developed and matured as a civilization and such conduct is totally unacceptable.
Susanna Balaguer Serra
'I enjoy hunting, it’s primeval. When I look
ReplyDeletethrough the scope I don't see a living thing,
it’s a target.'
When I read that sentence I thought Wow, how
can someone enjoy hunting animals?
I know we all need to respect each other’s
decisions but I don’t understand how someone
can have fun killing elephants and skinning
them, from where I sit, that’s inhuman and
absolutely disgusting, I mean, I know we have
to hunt anyways, because we need it to survive,
but he is just doing it for fun, I can’t
believe he actually enjoys doing that as he
says in the article.
Alejandra Séculi
Well, as Susanna said, the whole thing is mainly offensive. A man may like to hunt, and if he can, he will; for the pleasure, the thrill, the primeness of the survivalist act, or to augment their collection of heads. What isn't necessary, apart from the hunt itself (in our opinion), is the "showing-off". The man is proud and likes the attention he is getting. Well, he should be simply ignored by everyone except those who will do anything to stop him. We may all be part of a system where we contribute to the continuous killing of cattle and many animals around the globe, but we don't have many other options. And we don't hang our meat as life-less trophy-husks, while inviting photographers into our death show to boost our pyramidal ego and self-confidence.
ReplyDeleteAs you can read in the comments above, anyone with a minimum of sensitivity feels appalled with this news.
ReplyDeleteThis man talks about hypocrisy, and I would be a hypocrite if I said that killing animals is an atrocity. I am not a vegetarian, I eat meat and, as Pablo Albanell has said before, I contribute to the continuous killing of cattle (and other animals). Human beings are omnivorous, it is in our nature to eat meat. What I feel horrified about is with the fact that someone uses killing animals as a hobby, that he feels superior by taking away another living being’s life. Luckily we are starting to have laws which regulate the way animals in slaughterhouses have to be killed in order to suffer as little as possible, we still have a long way to go, but at least it is a start. But, who takes care of the welfare of the poor animals hunters kill?
I totally agree with all the above comments. The happiness, satisfaction and, above all, loftiness the man in the photograph expresses is unbelievable. Hunting is necessary in life as us, humans; eat meat from dead animal’s body, as Alba and Pablo said. However, killing the animal shouldn’t be considered an entertaining activity neither something to be recognized for as a kind of “record”. According to what Marina said, the economic profits provided by this activity can’t be considered a good reason for hunting, as it’s totally unethical and shows no difference between animals and humans. In theory, we try to be moral and fit into society as all humans know what should or shouldn’t be done, it’s because of this that I can’t understand the thoughts that the hunter of the photograph may have in mind. How can people admire someone which considers himself a hero for torturing over 300 animals which have the same right as humans to live?
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