Poetic and damn true <3

I still haven't had an opportunity to share a meal with you, Syri. I'll have to drag DOPR and Skadjer along with me, and come grill something with you and Slash.

Sounds like a plan!

D.O.P.R

Damn that's awesome, and exactly how I feel about it.

Woaaa

I empathize with this tremendously... my vegetarianism here is not a choice, but rather is demanded by my sense of honor.

I am not a carrion-feeder. I can't eat meat that has been sitting in a freezer of corpses for more than a month. *hisses angrily at his institution's food*

I scavenge by necessity, not by choice.

It's a bruise on my sense of honor knowing that the meat I eat died as part of a packaged, processed, institutionalized, sterile, impersonal process which does nothing for the prey, or for me.

I eat to live, but there is no life in the meat.

D.O.P.R

Well spoken.

There's definitely a domination aspect to it for me. At the same time though, I am respectful of my prey's sacrifice. I see that as the reason for draconic laziness. Dragons are powerful creatures, but do not squander that power. It would be rather insulting to eat someone and then just waste that energy on nothing important.

And that is part of using our power responsibly. Whether it's the power we gain from a meal, or the power we have over others. And the ability to manage it responsibly comes from our individual (or collective) sense of honour.

D.O.P.R

Well put. I only wish I could follow such a promise in the world today...

It's certainly not as easy as it use to be.

D.O.P.R

No it is not. And I won't go vegie because I like the taste of meat too much (once when I was in the dorms I actually had a sever craving to the extent that all I could think about was a good steak--I walked a mile to a grocery store, bought a pound and a half of meat, some seasoning ($6 total) and back, grilled it up in the dorm's oven and promptly devoured it; the whole time all I could think about was meat.

If a doctor ever told me that I could never eat meat again or I would die, I would go out to an expensive steak place, sit myself in front of a nice juicy sirloin and die with a smile.

D.O.P.R

I think I'd order a whole cow. Medium rare.

With a baked potato.

Nicely said. This is something I agree wholeheartedly with. Its easy to forget what you're missing out on, when your meat comes to you in an instant from a process you're not at all involved in.

Which, makes it hard for me to decide how I feel about hunting today. On one hand, I understand the desire to hunt, on the other, shooting something from 200 yards away is impersonal and dulls the experience. At that point, it seems more like killing for pleasure.

I'm also rather torn on the issue of sport hunting for about the same reasons.

A shot from 200 yards, or an arrow designed to bleed out the target from behind a specially constructed blind where the targets come to you and all you have to do is sit and wait.

There are lessons that can be learned from modern hunting, and I would like to think that there are modern hunters who understand and respect the hunt as well as the prey. But truth to tell, I'm not sure.
What I have been able to see is all self centric. It's a competition to see who get's the biggest buck, or grandest rack. "Look at my great catch." or "I made a great shot." Then the obligatory photo over the corpse to show off the great catch.

It just seems arrogant and disrespectful to me. Especially when the fate of the prey goes no farther then a mount on someone's wall.

D.O.P.R