This topic may only really matter to people in the UK.
If youve been reading the papers or watching the news latly, you may have seen articles or stories about fox hunting and other hunting sports. Groups of protesters want hunting banned as they say it is cruel and evil. But people from the country side and other rural areas dont want a ban, as it will effect there livlyhoods and otherways of country life in a bad way. Both seem to think they our going to win this aurguemnt as both have a big backing.
I looked at the situation with mixed thoughts. At first i was with them keeping fox hunting. It has been a way of life for many centuries now, and no one seemed to complain about it before. It had only really seemed that in recent times people who live in the cities (and have probably never even seen a fox and think of them as cute cartoon animals) have started to comaplain.
I voiced this opinion when talking with my dad, and he had nearly the oppisite view.
He thought it was a cruel way to kill an animal, chasing it halfway across the countryside untill it was to exhausted to run, then having it ripped apart by the hounds just for a couple of snobs to have fun.
My dads view effected mine greatly. I had never really thought about the fox itself. I put myself in the foxs place and relised how bad what happened to it really was. It was a cruel and malicious way to kill an animal, or any living thing.
But i still had my other view niggling away at the back of my mind.
I had seen more news reports now, and both sides were using their own propagander on people. Against Fox Hunting carried on explaining to people how cruelly the foxes were treated, while For Fox Hunting told of the plight of countryside people. My views kept wavering in between the middle.
An article i read explained how the hunting hounds were now being used in the aurguement. Hundreds of dogs would be shot as the people who run the hunts would not be able to look after them if hunting was banned. Is the death of hundreds of dogs worth it to stop the death of a couple of foxes each year?
The situation has completly baffled me now. For? Against? Each side has as good enough arguement as the other. The situation doesnt seem like it will ever be sorted out. So while im stuck in the middle, contemplating what would be the right side to agree with, i ask what is your opnions on the whole Fox Hunting Aurguement?
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