Would we hunt them?

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It depends on what they offered us. Like if their fur was soft, sure, people would hunt them. If we could eat their meat and it was delicious, yes, we’d hunt them. If it was a challenge to kill them, they’d be hunted for sport.

    We hunt many animals much more harmless than a slapping bear. We hunt fish, for god’s sake.

  • AzPsycho@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well Bears are fucking massive so if they slapped you without claws they still have the ability to break bones and cause other severe injury.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Of course. Human stupidity is limitless, what makes you think we wouldn’t? People would get into unarmed fights with them just for social media points. And as for actually hunting, addressing your question directly, yes, that too. Some people like to shoot about anything that moves. Others might find their fur or different parts useful somehow. And you could possibly find those killing momma bears to sell their cubs as pets in the black market.

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    We would never get to see them. Animals who can’t either run away from us or seriously fight back are mostly extinct.

    Our ancestors would have consigned them all to the fur trade a couple of centuries ago.

    • x4740N@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We’re currently hunting ourselves to extinction both metaphorically and literally

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      1 year ago

      Hence why they stipulated no serious injury. I guess these either have excellent control and restraint or they’re talking about big hairy gay men 😉

  • DrQuint@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Replace slaps with “kicks” and you basically have some Kangaroos which we DO fence away and sometimes kill