Every single Native culture is distinct and unique, though many share similarities, and lumping them together is ridiculous. And while some practices are pan-Indian, the vast majority are not.
Stop homogenizing our cultures. Every Native culture is beautiful and unique and deserves to be treated that way.
Don’t fall into the trope of “pan Indian”. Fucking teepees and totem poles never existed together. Totem poles are permanent structures, teepees are fucking tents for nomadic peoples. First Nations and indigenous cultures are all deep and uniquely complex, it would be like confusing England with Russia.
to clarify they do this to people who pirate movies, shows, or songs, they got exposed by 4chan and some high level leaks, and they STILL do this because most of the people working for “justice” dont believe that the high fines for pirating are enough, better to put em in prison for two decades and then theyre a creepy registered sex offender until they die. thats what they get for sharing a copy of Zootopia, right? totally deserved
Chewy Commercial: Tired of lugging around those heavy bags of food and litter?
My mail carrier, probably: am I fucking ever
Animals that humans hunt – especially those killed by a skilled hunter
– have a much faster death than those that fall victim to nonhuman
predators. Humans generally take much more care to give an instant death than, say, a polar bear does. Death itself isn’t
suffering: it’s the end of suffering, and it’s also a natural part of life.
And though these animals may have a will to live, 30% of Harp seals die of exposure in their first year:
that’s natural selection, and while it’s not pretty, it’s also a force
that drives evolution, and the continued survival of these species. The
DFO quotas are well below 30% of the population: Harp seal populations
are estimated to be around 5.5 Million, and around 70,000 are killed
annually in the Canadian hunt.
You are also misinformed about the age of the animals hunted: hunting of
“baby” harp seals and hooded seals (whitecoats and bluebacks,
respectively) has been illegal in Canada since the 1987. This is information that is freely available from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada.
Predators are a part of the ecology that sustains life on this planet, and humans have a long and storied history fulfilling that role in ecosystems. As far as my morals are concerned, I see no contradiction in my stated ethics and my support of the hunt: suffering and death are inevitabilities of existence, and humans go so far as to have veterinarians extensively study how quickly an animal dies when it is killed for meat or other resources, in order to minimise suffering as much as possible. (See: the work of Temple Grandin)
We don’t live in a futuristic utopia where people – especially people in remote, non-agricultural areas – don’t need to kill other animals to survive, and my support of hunting and fishing rights is directly related to my support of indigenous resistance and sovereignty.
Humans doing what they need to do to survive and thrive isn’t “evil:” it’s only “evil” if natural processes like death and predation are viewed as intrinsically immoral, and humans are viewed as something other than biological organisms, neither is true. The idea of ‘cruelty-free’ or ‘moral’ food and fibre from that perspective is also a fallacy: plants have senses, and 20 field mice are killed for every loaf of bread. Agriculture and monoculture cropping have relentlessly destroyed soil life webs and fragmented habitat. Speaking purely from a utilitarian perspective, ending the life of a cow kills one organism, whereas a tilled field of soybeans kills hundreds of thousands, including hundreds of “intelligent” creatures like rodents.
As always, I’ll suggest this article for a moral perspective on hunting:
I’m tickled that y’all think Cordial is so pretty because my mom thinks he’s the ugliest possible animal and we always knew she was wrong but it’s still nice to prove it.
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