• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    These bears will actively and eagerly hunt you. However, at that point, from your perspective, it’s probably no longer hunting and is now in the realm of self-defense.

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      9 months ago

      Yes, legitimate self-defense is not hunting. They aren’t even comparable moral or ethical actions.

      One is self-preservation, the other is sport.

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        9 months ago

        The only study more dubious would be one detailing the murder rates in uncontacted tribes from 1870-2014.

        I appreciate the intention: polar bears aren’t man eating monsters, but the remote nature of life in the Arctic gives me serious doubts on the accuracy of those findings.