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Completely your opinion. Falconry is a time honored tradition, and (if you read a post or two after your original post to the falconer who posted) not some sort of evil life-long slavery for the raptor involved. Do you think it's cruel when the falcons hunt in the wild? If not, why is it cruel for them to hunt with a human, who will probably re-release them into the wild in a few years anyway?
Btw, falconers don't keep their raptors on a tether or some such thing when they're out hunting. At any time they are out, that raptor could make the decision to leave of it's own free will, and never come back.
Sometimes if you don't like something other people do, it's better to just leave it be than to call down moderators, fire, and brimstone upon them just because you don't like it. Falconry is perfectly legal, hunting is perfectly legal, has been practiced for thousands of years, and if you don't like it you don't have to do it. It's reprehensible to try to shut down others who do so by calling on the moderators simply because you do not like it though.
Completely your opinion. Falconry is a time honored tradition, and (if you read a post or two after your original post to the falconer who posted) not some sort of evil life-long slavery for the raptor involved. Do you think it's cruel when the falcons hunt in the wild? If not, why is it cruel for them to hunt with a human, who will probably re-release them into the wild in a few years anyway?
Btw, falconers don't keep their raptors on a tether or some such thing when they're out hunting. At any time they are out, that raptor could make the decision to leave of it's own free will, and never come back.
Sometimes if you don't like something other people do, it's better to just leave it be than to call down moderators, fire, and brimstone upon them just because you don't like it. Falconry is perfectly legal, hunting is perfectly legal, has been practiced for thousands of years, and if you don't like it you don't have to do it. It's reprehensible to try to shut down others who do so by calling on the moderators simply because you do not like it though.
