Thread: AA Gill shot baboon 'to see what it would be like to kill someone'

Quote: Originally Posted by Expat Judge So its all about intelligence? Would you eat a fish? What are you up to? Where are you going with this? Are you slyly trying to sweep me down some philosophical stream where you eventually suggest that you yourself are merely the equivalent of a fish? Is so, yes I would eat you if there were no alternative, though I would prefer not to. And I certainly wouldn't shoot you for fun. I would only kill...

Would TFI complain less if the guy had shot a Mexican?

Okay. Would you eat a jellyfish?

Quote: Originally Posted by rockiavelli Who gives a fuck about chickens? I do! I loooooove chicken. Oh wait, you mean when they're alive. No I don't.

Quote: Originally Posted by A Total Fucking Idiot You have to stroke their hide and whisper lovingly in their ear a little bit before you try to mount them. That's one. Anybody else?

Quote: Originally Posted by johnsangnim Shooting an animal = sociopath? Absurd. You're responsible for the death of an animal every time you have a meal or use a something that is made from an animal product. Does it matter that he did it for fun? I can see where you can argue that. But doesn't sociopath mean killing people for the fuck of it. I think that's a pretty big jump. I knew a guy who shot a chicken with a rocket...

This is a message board, not Congress.

Did he eat the baboon? If so, no harm, no foul. You kill it you eat it. That's the rule. You get some sort of odd African gastro disease from eating baboon, that's your karma. That's why I mostly eat chicken. Who gives a fuck about chickens? On a related note, on my trip back to the States for my sister's wedding the last few weeks I hit up one of the best BBQ joints in the world, Jim's Rib Haven in Rock Island, IL....

Says a total fucking idiot. Look, I'm not saying shooting a baboon for the fuck of it is cool. I wouldn't do it. I'm saying making the jump to sociopath is a stretch. Most killers start of torturing and mutilating animals? If you say so, I don't know. But that's not what he is doing, is it?

Quote: Originally Posted by Dan The Chainsawman Really, if the guy wants to get a sense of what it is like to kill a man he should have shot a man. Plenty of Africans running around with aids that he could have picked off. At least he could have done everyone a favour and shot that Robert Mugabe wanker, he would have done the Zimbaeweans a major one. I'd have rather him shoot that guy than pretty much any other creature in Africa. The...