Random Incoherent Jargon: Look at me! Look at me! I SHOT something! Take a picture of me with the dead animal!!!

I used to think nothing of it, most of my friends in my younger days loved to go deer hunting and I just passed it off as "the thing to do." Never giving it a second thought, I typically thought it was rather neat to see picture of people I knew while propping up the head of a deer. It was never my thing however. If my Uncle wanted to go hunting, I typically stayed behind simply because I had no interest in taking the time to hunt. And to be honest, I'm not against hunting. We need food and that's one of the ways we get it. However, a few years ago I discovered something about myself...I absolutely cannot stand photos of people smiling in the camera while holding up a dead deer.

It verges on the side of demented and vile for me. Here we have a living creature who, I'm sure, unexpectedly took a bullet or an arrow to the side and suffered for a few minutes before dying. Now, if you will, imagine the hunter coming up to the dead deer laying all cross eyed on the ground, calling his friend to come over with the camera, taking the deer by the antlers, and smiles while the companion snaps a shot. Does no one else see how twisted this is? Why do hunters feel taking a photo of themselves with a dead animal to be visually appealing? It's sick and gross and I DO NOT support this sentiment that deer hunters seem to revel in.

But it doesn't stop there does it? Not only do pictures of happiness in shooting an animal permeate all through out the web, but trophies are made of the beast's heads! The head is chopped off, the innards are taking out and replaced with stuffing, the head is mounted on a glistening piece of wood and then is mounted on the wall of someone's home or a restaurant. It's bad enough that people find the head of a dead animal hanging on the wall of your home nice to look at, but restaurants tend to think that eating food while an animal's head hovers over you won't spoil your appetite. Which it doesn't in most cases.

We, as a society, have become so desensitized to the act of killing animals that we no longer see the demented nature of making trophies out of our kills. Do we think that just because we have this presumed dominion over the animals in the world that we can also make a mockery of them as well? Why do we become so horrified by the whole notion of people killing people, but when it comes to killing animals, we think nothing of it and make it a point to show the world that we LOVE killing animals?

Maybe I'm just ignorant due to the fact that I didn't grow up with this need to kill things for the sport of it, but I still have absolute confidence that taking a photograph of yourself with your triumphant kill borderlines on the sick a twisted. Sorry for all of you hunters who enjoy this type of thing but it just isn't my thing, I find it appalling.

If you're still having trouble with understanding this, here's some photos that might help you to understand my point of view. You don;t have to agree with me, but I at least hope you get what I'm trying to say.