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Originally Posted by Pierre
They don't go out with the intention of killing a cat, it's fox hunting not cat hunting.
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Unless there is a coordinated national sport of running over cats using cars or motorcycles that I'm not aware of then I'm afraid that's a not very good try at flawed analogy avoidance there Pierre.
You introduced the idiotic notion of people perhaps calling for a ban on leisure driving in the event that someone ran over a cat whilst out on a leisurely drive. Assuming that the "leisurely drive" is the prime motivation for them being out on / in a motorcyle or car then one might reasonably assume that they did not intentionally go out to run over a cat.
As for fox hunting (the clue is in the name) as you kindly pointed out above it is the
intention to chase and kill a fox - there is a very clear difference between the two situations. Trying to justify "hunting" by drawing analogies involving accidents is really clutching at straws.
On the matter of straws...with a straw poll of even just the posters partaking in this thread / debate I'm pretty sure one will find that the public will afford the accidental death of an animal as a result of leisure driving a greater degree of sympathy / understanding than a planned organised quasi ritualized hunting and killing of same - especially by those they view (rightly or wrongly) as "toffs" or whatever.
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Danielf - got there before me!!