If you are going to bow hunt a bear you also have to bait it, preferrably with another animal but if you can't do that then you can do it with sweets. Baiting is illegal in a number of states though. I don't know of another accessory to bow hunting than baiting.

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Bear hunting should be a capital offense.

@Putin33 Surely you value a human life more highly than a bear. Surely you jest ("jets").

Would the Battle of Agincourt have been worse for you if the opponent had been bears?

A bear is a great animal. Some dope with a bow who murders it deserves maximum punishment.

What if the bears were capitalist?

What if a bear kills another bear?

What if Tendmote stopped trying to be witty?

@Putin33 values animal life above human life.

What if a bear kills another bear with a bow? What if a bear kills another bear with a composite bear? What if a bear kills a bear with a bear that he shot with a bow?

@phil_a_s your questions are moot, the bears are hibernating right now

This topic is completely awesome. No doubt Chuck Norris approves.

What if I use a hibernating bear as a bow to shoot a bear?

And the arrow is a pelican

"@Putin33 values animal life above human life."

I value animal life equal to animal life.
I don't see why it would be relevant if that animal is a human. That sounds an awful lot like discrimination to me as well. Presumably Putin thinks of it similarly.

@steephie22 Is capital punishment fitting though, as Putin33 suggests? I mean, dude, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a dude for a bear... a dude for a fish, a dude for a bug, a cat for a bird, a bird for a worm, where does it end? Leaves the whole world blind and kinda hungry.

If you do it because you need food or because the bear tries to kill you without you provoking it, it's just a sad tale of nature. Otherwise, I don't see why you're not a murderer. If you don't even use, bury or cremate the corpse, even worse.

@steephie22 That's reasonable. Putin33 seemed to suggest that it was because the bear was an especially "great animal", as if animals were equal in theory, but some animals were "more equal than others" in practice.

That was before I read your latest message. As for capital punishment, I don't know... Definitely some punishment, but just to prevent evil from happening, not for revenge, or "justice", how people prefer to call it.

To be honest though, I will kill a mosquito in my room...

It does make me sad though, and I wouldn't want to make it suffer. I can't really quite justify doing so either, but, you know, you don't want mosquito's in your room...

@steephie22 Hmm...

As for the bear, well, since we're simply not completely rational beings, it makes sense we care more about animals that are closer to us, so we care more about bears than mosquito's...

That doesn't justify it for me though. On the other hand, at some point you have to wonder what's worse, killing a virus or a plant or something... And then back to the mosquito's... At some point you have to kill.

Just killing a friendly bear for fun or for the sports though, I can't justify that.

@steephie22 Go on...

Basically, if you respect all life and act accordingly, you can't go far wrong in my opinion.

I'm not even a vegetarian. That is something I consider a point of improvement though.

@steephie22 What do you think about communism, then?

I don't see the connection :P

Anyway, I think pure communism sucks just as much as pure capitalism. I think there should be social security to give everyone the possibility to reasonably have a life, taxing the rich most for that, to level the playfield a bit as well, which is better for the economy. Other than that, capitalism mostly works for me. Some other things of communism will do too though. As long as it's not purely one of them.

"@Putin33 values animal life above human life."

Mr. Nuance can't figure out my position. What a surprise.

@Putin33

I was taking your statement as a statement of truth:

"A bear is a great animal. Some dope with a bow who murders it deserves maximum punishment."

What did you mean by that, Mr. Between-the-Lines?