Royal extremely long question and analogy with a smile answer.
Remember I speak 4 languages so sometimes expressing in writing could be slightly more complicated as you might think, thinking in three languages and writing in one...
So to simplify, I simply canot do or condone something or an act or be part of an action that I canot defend with moral conviction.
Thereby defined as
Moral conviction is a subjective assessment that one's attitude about a specific issue or situation. is associated with one's core moralbeliefs and fundamental sense of right or wrong.
Now I will go as far as to say and as explained earlier that this industry in its current state cannot be defended by myself with moral conviction.
How can I ethically and or morally (another personal) justify shooting a lion that has been out of a pen for 96 hours (optimistically speaking).
Herein lies my problem and PHASA's problem whether Joe soap agrees with me or not, I know what is right and what is wrong.
Or is it all about the money? So disregard how I feel when all is said and done and I'm standing next to a cat that was fed up to 96 hours ago.
There is a better solution to this current system,
yes.....it'll push prices up,
yes.....less lions will be shot,
yes.....it'll be better,
yes.....the market will adjust.
SAPA is working on it as we speak.
As simple as that.
Remember by being quite and not confronting issues within our own industry and issues we have in our own industry and sorting them out we are giving the anti's even more power.
An anti hunter can not take away my ability to hunt, it is my right....as it is his to be gay, straight, bi, vegetarian or a democrat......
We should not pussy foot around subjects because of them, they should not intimidate us, yes we disagree..... Why? because humans are individualists, disagreeing is good it is constructive as we are all (hunters) all striving to protect and nurture our natural heritage, for future generations.
If an action or industry is not in a good state it is up to us to clean it no one else.
My best always