At 12:52 PM 11/28/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:

One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the

easiest way possible -- simply because we can.

Neo-cons?

Instead, we have people who think it would be "sporting" to hunt and kill animals by remote-control with their computer. That sort of thinking is

just plain sick.

Except when its the US military doing it...

Where exactly is the "sport''? More importantly, where is the hunt?

Webster's New World Dictionary defines "hunt'' this way: "1.) to go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport; 2. to search eagerly or carefully for; try to find 3. a.) to pursue; chase; drive b) to hound; harry, persecute 4. a) to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game'' and on and on in that vein.

How do they define war?

Nowhere is there any mention of sitting in a home or office, watching a computer-display screen and punching buttons. If that qualifies as hunting, no one really need ever hunt again because we've then reduced the killing of animals to the shooting of pictures.

How does the author feel about rifled barrels? Chemical propellants in general? Is an atlatl moral? How about a 'net-connected atlatl? Just curious.