CHITRAL: Those who kill animals for pleasure—under the sanitized labels of trophy hunting, sport shooting, or recreational fishing—are not adventurers, conservationists, or sportsmen. They are cowards who seek thrill through the most unequal form of violence imaginable. Armed with rifles, hooks, and technology, they prey on beings that cannot consent, retaliate, or escape on equal terms. There is nothing brave in killing for amusement; it is dominance theater for the morally hollow. The grinning photographs beside mutilated bodies, the wall-mounted heads, the celebratory tales of “the kill” expose not skill, but a disturbing hunger for power over the vulnerable.
At its core, pleasure derived from killing is sadism—plain and unvarnished. It signals a warped psyche that confuses cruelty with masculinity, excitement with virtue, and destruction with achievement. Psychological literature has long linked enjoyment of animal suffering to psychopathic traits: lack of empathy, emotional shallowness, and thrill-seeking through harm. A society that excuses or romanticizes such behavior corrodes its own ethical foundations. Progress is measured by how fiercely life is protected, not by how casually it is ended. Killing for fun is not a harmless pastime—it is a moral failure, and those who indulge in it deserve to be called exactly what they are. .. CN report, 07 Feb 2026
2 thoughts on “The coward’s thrill: Why killing for pleasure is moral decay”
My theory is that most of these trophy and big game hunters who pose besides their dead prey are lacking not only courage but also are severely affected by their sexual shortcomings, some probably have very small or deformed private parts and they try and overcome those feelings by killing these beautiful creations of God besides flaunting their ugly wealth. Those who facilitate them for money are no better.
We humans have been hunters for as long as we have been humans. It is built into us over hundreds of millions of years as predators, and necessary to supply human civilisation with security and food. First farming (that needs the protection of hunters) and then urbanisation (that is fed by hunters) took away direct need for 80% of the population over the last few thousand years. But it is still there, driven by the male evolutionary principle to provide and protect, although only rich people can afford to hunt the most charismatic animals these days because they have to pay for the millions of acres of natural habitat and animals where they hunt. Trophy hunting exercises that fundamental male drive and it is the best possible land use. Without it, land is converted to farming.
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