065 - Hunters
May. 18th, 2016 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyAs Molly and I were driving to the Doctor's Office today, she piped up out of nowhere and said "Ugh I *hate* hunters". I looked around a bit and saw that we had just passed a rolling stereotype, a jacked-up Chevy quarter-ton pickup truck painted in camouflage, with a rollbar and a gun rack and plentiful bumper stickers proclaiming that the driver would rather be shooting animals, helping The South rise again and/or supporting our troops because our colors don't run.
"Well why do you hate Hunters so much, Molly?" I asked this kind of expecting a diatribe about how she loves animals and meat is murder and all the things I *know* she's going to say eventually which will be when/why she becomes a vegetarian in her teen years. I was ready to go on the defensive, pointing out overpopulation and thinning the herd and other stuff like that. However...
"BECAUSE THEY'RE EATING ALL THE MEAT BEFORE I CAN!"
I was... confused? "Yeah, but isn't it also because they kill all the cute animals? Isn't THAT why you hate them?"
"No! See, the hunters just keep on hunting and killing and we're going to run out of animals to eat! They need to stop!"
"But honey... SOMEBODY has to kill the animals so you can eat them! Hunters kill the animals, then you can eat them."
"They need to STOP before the run out of animals for me to eat!"
"Well why do you hate Hunters so much, Molly?" I asked this kind of expecting a diatribe about how she loves animals and meat is murder and all the things I *know* she's going to say eventually which will be when/why she becomes a vegetarian in her teen years. I was ready to go on the defensive, pointing out overpopulation and thinning the herd and other stuff like that. However...
"BECAUSE THEY'RE EATING ALL THE MEAT BEFORE I CAN!"
I was... confused? "Yeah, but isn't it also because they kill all the cute animals? Isn't THAT why you hate them?"
"No! See, the hunters just keep on hunting and killing and we're going to run out of animals to eat! They need to stop!"
"But honey... SOMEBODY has to kill the animals so you can eat them! Hunters kill the animals, then you can eat them."
"They need to STOP before the run out of animals for me to eat!"
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Date: 2016-05-19 04:22 pm (UTC)