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| No | 61% | 329 votes | Total: 535 votes | |
| Yes | 39% | 206 votes |
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Hunting is legitimate in so far it is legal, why it is legal is difficult to understand. Is it a sport? The dictionary definition of the word sport is: a game or competitive act...read more
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by Ryter Lore
No, hunting is NOT a legitimate sport. The idea that hunting is a legitimate sport is absolutely ludicrous. The audacity that these killers have to say that slaughtering an inno...read more
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by Zach Bigalke
For millennia, man has needed to take down his fellow beasts to put food in his belly. Hunting is a survival instinct, a means of achieving the end of satisfying hunger. And whi...read more
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by Paul Mount
I am not opposed to hunting, per se. If you are hunting to feed yourself or your family, this is what nature intended. Homo Sapiens is a predatory species, after all. Nor do I a...read more
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I'm placing my two pennies in the no "pot" not because I feel hunting can't meet the classification of legitimate sport, but rather because we're into something that runs de...read more
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by Charlets
It's a big "NO"! We are talking about sport. Well, how can you be sport when you are hurting a living thing or maybe a human being that you missed with your bullets or guns or w...read more
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by John Gugie
I do not believe that hunting animals is a legitimate sport because I believe that sports should be for fun and not kill anyone or anything. I consider sports like basketball, ...read more
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by Roy Looker
Is hunting a not only a legitimate sport, but a needed conservation method to keeping populations of wild game from overpopulating and preventing excessive economic destruction ...read more
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Is hunting animals a legitimate sport? No, it is not in my personal opinion. I do not consider hunting a sport. I see no pleasure in killing for the sake of killing and that ...read more
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Hunting.It is a word that can stir up ill opinions on one side, and passionate conversations about the love of the sport on the other. But is it really a sport? The definition o...read more
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by E. Janane
Hunting animals as a sport will clearly show how demented anyone could be to approve of such a notion. I shall not even attempt to include the word legitimate into my discussion...read more
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by Sans Souci
Hunting animals is not a legitimate sport. A sport is something that people do for fun and amusement. Killing is not something that any healthy or sane person would do for fun...read more
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I have to say that if it is a legitimate sport to hunt animals then why do we put people in prison for murder? It is such a shame that we as humans feel the need to kill our...read more
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by Tony Tiano
Let us start from the definition of "sport" first and foremost. "Sport" is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competively. Sports com...read more
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by Randy Scott
Hunting, for thousands of years, was both useful and necessary. When people would hunt it was not for sport, not for something to do on a weekend, it was for survival. Native pe...read more
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Hunting is the ultimate contradiction, because hunters kill the very animals they claim to love and respect. The hunting of animals is not a sport, it is an act against nature, ...read more
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Long, long ago men were the hunters in their domain. Women stayed in their caves, tents, igloos and did the chores they did back then. This was routine and they did what they ha...read more
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Hunting can be best defined as an activity rather than a sport, and perhaps sport would apply only in the minds of those who don't think twice about taking the lives of innocent...read more
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The hunting of animals is perhaps the worlds oldest activity because mankind has evolved as a hunter gatherer species since we began to walk upright. Back then of course this wa...read more
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Sport is defined as an activity governed by rules or customs where the capability of participants controls the outcome of the game'. Hunting is not a game'. It is a survival s...read more
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by Ray Scott
I have trouble understanding the thinking of people at times, many who think hunting is not a sport, but an evil act against wildlife, will go to the supermarket and never think...read more
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by John Davis
The "hunting as sport" issue boils down to a matter of semantics. If we define "sport" as competition between two teams attempting to achieve one certain goal, then no, hunting ...read more
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by Dean Smith
I have contested for a long time what is a sport and what is not a sport. If a may use a paraphrase from the late George Carlin "Golf is not a sport. You hit a ball with a crook...read more
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by Erik Olson
Hunting, like many activities, isn't "necessary" anymore. You can buy your dinner from a drive-thru window, eat prefabricated meat slabs packed with chemicals, dyes and residual...read more
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I've never shot a gun and do not have the desire to learn. I grew up in the suburbs and remember my Dad spending a weekend or two each fall hunting deer and taking an occasiona...read more
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Is hunting animals a legitimate sport? How could I vote on that? It was either yes or no. What I was looking for was a "maybe" vote. I don't hunt anymore partly because I have a...read more
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I can see where the idea stems from that, in fact, hunting is not a legitimate sport, however, I really do not think anyone really has the right to make such a blanket statement...read more
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by Jan Hoadley
Many don't consider this a sport because people benefit from it...should then running not be considered a sport as people benefit from that too? The fact is it takes skill t...read more
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A sport is, by definition, an activity requiring athletic skill or prowess and of a competitive nature. Many textbook definitions include "hunting" as an example of the term. ...read more
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To many Helium readers this discussion may be a completely new idea to ponder. I fancy this to be the case since most people are not active hunters (like myself), and most are ...read more
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by Willard King
For all the people who wrote in the "No" category, if you had ever tried the sport of hunting, than and only than would your opinion matter. I read through several who claim tha...read more
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by Hye Ju Kum
I believe that hunting animals is a part of a sport. What we call sport is a movement that requires lots of energy source produced in our body. While we hunt animals, we use ene...read more
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Yes, hunting is sport, and yes, it is legitimate. Our ancestors would find it humorous that we're even having this discussion. To eat meat, they needed to hunt. We no longer mus...read more
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by James Newton
Hunting can most certainly be classified as a sport. A debate on the matter is only possible because there are those who disregard fact and the definitions of the terms altoget...read more
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by Bill Whitney
Hunting is not only a legitimate sport, it is needed sometimes to control the population of some animals. Animals such as prairie dogs and rabbits need to be hunted or they wi...read more
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Hunting animals should definitely a legitimate sport. I know most or I should say a lot of people do not like the idea of killing these defenseless cute little animals. When ...read more
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by Chaz Z.
It was opening deer hunting season this weekend, and once again an idiot decided to give me cause to question this sports "legitimacy." I heard some gunfire that sounded as tho...read more
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by Greg Spinks
Hunting, Better for Us and the Animals Yes, hunting is a legitimate, even needed sport and the vast majority of hunters that I know are ethical hunters. Although, I must ad...read more
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by Odin Kyle
Hunting is both a sport and legitimate. I hunt. I eat what I kill and I never kill just to take a trophy. Hunting is a skill that we should not lose. Hunting is not cruel and is...read more
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by Lee Hall
Is hunting animals a legitimate sport? We could leave out hunting and insert a myriad of sports asking the very same question. What defines a sport? For someone who has hu...read more
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