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[hyzmarca]

http://www.live-shot.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5050701270.html

I imagine this is a popular passtime in 2070.

[JesterX]

That's the most stupidest and horrible thing I've ever saw... Where is the humanity going?!

[Rock]

Killing stuff from my couch? That's why I have a PS2 and a copy of Vice City, baby!

[Catsnightmare]

Thanks be the Texas Parks and Wildlife had the sense to ban this stupidity.

[Kagetenshi]

What's the problem with it? Real killing can be, and will increasingly be, an anonymous activity. Safe and anonymous human-killing is probably only a few decades away at most.

~J

[hyzmarca]

I find it interesting that people see a major ethical quagmire in this yet they do not see any ethical problem with killing things for fun. I'm sorry folks, but I don't see how killing the animal in person makes it any less dead.


There's also a rather good chance that the ban violates the American's with Disabilities act.

Most people can't run down a deer and rip its throat out with their bare teeth. We allow these people to assist themselves with technological tools. Why not do the same for people who can't walk or hold a gun?

[emo samurai]

[JesterX]

Personnaly, I'm against hunting as a sport...

[Platinum]

blah ...... you bleeding heart vegetarians. Hunting is a sport because you have to outsmart your prey which have keener senses and faster mobility than you do.

I am against killing an animal and just leaving it there.... if you kill it you eat it .... but it is still a sport.

[emo samurai]

What if the wolves eat it?

[Austere Emancipa...]

Or the maggots?

[Platinum]

Then it is still a waste. Seen it too many times where people shoot the deer, and if they do not kill it outright they just let it run off and die. Nature will take over, for sure, but any hunter that just leaves it there or lets it runs off just disserves a good beating.

Beating a wasteful hunter could be a new sport alltogether.... you guys might be on to something.

[hyzmarca]

In this case there is no waste. A Spotter retrieves the animal and it is properly butchered. The meat, if not used by the hunter, is donated to charity.

Doubtlessly, this technology can be applied against the most dangerous game. Perhaps it could be improved by attaching the gun mount to a wheeled vehicle of some sort and then letting it loose in a highschool. :D

[Platinum]

Wasn't there a version where you could use a paintball gun to hunt women in bikinis?

[Lindt]

That was a big fake. The money was in the video sales.

I find it disturbing....

[Nidhogg]

Internet hunting is all well and good, until you get hundreds of operations set up throughout North America and Europe, each with dozens of rifles. Suddenly, it becomes a game for bored rich kids, instead of a hobby for paralyzed hunting fanatics.

[Kremlin KOA]

High School? no

Streets of poor neighbourhoods? YESSSSS

[Jrayjoker]

OK, some of you folks are just nucking futs. And while I do not personally hunt I am not opposed to it on principle.

I find wasteful hunting abhorrent, but wasteful ANYTHING does not do anyone any favors in the long run. The market to those with disabilities, especially those who once could hunt IRL, is a good one, and I support it as long as there is sufficient oversight and control.

The potential for abuse frightens me more than I can accurately express without my 7th cup of coffee. And those who joke about using this technology on people, well, to quote Captain Hook, "Bad form old Pan, bad form."

[Kagetenshi]

Who's joking?

~J

[JesterX]

[Jrayjoker]

And golf is?

I can't shoot for SHIT, it would be a challenge.

[nezumi]

My only real concern is that this makes it too easy. Hunting is currently limited mostly by the fact that you actually have to get off your butt and go sit outside for most of the day. If fat, lazy kids can go hunting while popping cheetos in their mouth, it'll make for serious competition for real hunters, and they really won't appreciate what they're doing. After all, if you can't actually see the animal die, the fact that you just killed a living, breathing thing doesn't have nearly as much of an impact. I don't know that a person should go hunting if he isn't going to at least be truly aware of that.

On the flip side, I assume these iwll also be limited by some sort of hunting license, and it will likely cut down on hunting accidents as the kid can't shoot himself. Hopefully these won't be put where other people are, or these people will somehow be marked to avoid accidents (I truly can just imagine there's a large portion of the population who, while hunting over the internet, would love to "accidentally" shoot a person who walked into the field of fire.)

[James McMurray]

True sport would be leaping from a tree onto the beat with a knife in your teeth and fire in your heart. Looking through a scope from 100 yards away is just being lazy.

Besides, if it's challenging for you to outsmart a deer, maybe you've got bigger issues than deciding what sport you like? :)

[Platinum]

Have you people who think hunting is easy tried it?

Most of the time you are limited to hunting bucks since does tags are only available in a lottery. Not only that if you think you can just walk out into the woods and see a train of deer walking by and peck them off with perfect shots you have another thing coming.

It requires set up, strategy. Finding a deer trail, staying far enough from it that you can shoot but not be detected. A deer can smell your body 100m away, and if they get a wiff of you, then you will not even see them. Deer also are moving. Sometimes you will catch them grazing, but move of the time they are walking, and if you scare them, they are running. When you shoot the animal you still have to track it down, which is another skill. It's not like a video game where your rockets hit the animal and spit out deer burgers. Then you also have to drag the carcass back.

[James McMurray]

I went hunting once when I was a kid. There was no strategy involved that required actual thought or effort on our part. We climbed up in the blind someone else had made and waited. The only hard part was being quiet with the ADD singing it's song through my veins. :)