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Originally Posted by Damien
Out of interest would you also unban dog fighting?
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An activity in which dogs are trained (brutalised) to act contrary to their nature, in unnatural surroundings? I can see what you're trying to do, but you're trying to categorise everything under the heading "sports where animals get hurt" when I would argue "sports where animals do what they do" would be nearer the mark so far as fox hunting is concerned. And dog fighting doesn't fit that category.
Animals fight, that's natural, but they have a flight response as well as a fight response in any given situation and that it both beaten out of them and also physically barred from them in a fighting pit. Likewise for cock fighting, especially when the birds are tooled up with blades on their feet.
I might just as well ask if you would seek to ban angling.