>>>>>Now I can shoot a deer and feel a primary sense of joy and excitment instead of guilt. Sure if it is a poor shot and it suffers, I feel bad. But the feeling of a clean shot and quick kill of a deer is definitely one of the top 5 joys in my life.
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>>>>And that you feel that way doesn't bother you? If you were living in frontier times and killing that deer meant your family would eat for a week instead of going hungry, I can understand the feeling. But in the modern world, how can killing an innocent creature give you joy?
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>It's easy to paint deer as innocent little creatures, but they are a pest here. People die from car accidents with deer,
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>>Er, isn't it that deer die from people running into them? It's not as if the deer flatten the cars.
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>Actually the deer do flatten the cars. I've seen cars all but totaled after the driver hit a deer.

Exactly! It's he car that hits the deer. They can't help it!