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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6224091" data-attributes="member: 17106">Sure, a variety of debatably legitimate reasons that might encourage them to select the option of hunting. No one's holding a gun to their head and making them do it, so to speak.I'd suggest they eat vegetarian. In general, it's cheaper and healthier. However, I'm skeptical that hunting is a cost-effective means of food acquisition for most people. I doubt that many people are forced to hunt animals for food out of need.Again, that's them making a choice, one which they don't have to make. And I would again suggest that the meat aspect is completely unnecessary. And even if they did want to be self-sufficient and eat meat, it would likely be more efficient for them to raise their own livestock than hunt.There are many people who live with very little money or who live very independently, but do not hunt.Probably because I'm a pacifist and I see nonviolence as a moral imperative, regardless of who the target of the violence is.There's probably a case to be made for why a person might choose to acquire food by hunting, but I see no case to be made that it is anything other than optional in the twenty-first century. I don't understand what you're arguing for. I'm not saying that people can't do it, merely that they don't have to if they don't want to.</blockquote>