| The shameful and immoral travesty of fox hunting Over the last few months the wrongs and rights of fox hunting has been argued passionately by politicians and students all over the country. People have argued that it is a tradition, that it dates back hundreds of years (a bit like murder then), that it is pest control (of a species that only breeds when numbers are dropping) and that it is a way of life (so not like paedophilia then). While my quite irrelevant comments are ever so slightly tongue in cheek, the arguments given by the pro-hunting camp are just as pathetic and irrelevant. The fact is that they enjoy it. It answers a base calling from the depths of every one of us. The call of the pack, the gang, named society by the middle classes, needing a cleaner name to put upon it. Birds of a feather flock together and crush the individual who they find threatening. This destruction of the threatening becomes the destruction of the weak, safety in numbers. It is the same mentality that destroys the childhoods of hundreds at the hand of school bullies, and that calls millions across the world to genocide. It is gang rape mentality. Choose a being weaker than yourself; one that you would be able to destroy by yourself, but the satisfaction comes from the total and utter obliteration of your foe. The pack against the loner, the weak against the strong. Maybe making fox hunting illegal is debatable, but how can someone argue for its morality? Surely a person who does needs to be watched, this streak of sadism, however natural, is more dangerous to humanity than most are willing to see. |