Reply #154: I've responded to you before? Sorry, but I don't remember.

[Silverhair]

I really don't. I rarely notice the name of the author of the a post when I respond. (Except for the "Guns" forum were the small number of regulars causes me to notice.) I couldn't respond to all the similar posts in this thread, and somehow yours struck me as more self-righteous. Since I don't know what other of your posts I have responded too, I can't speak to why I responded to them. Please be reassured that I am not cyber-stalking you. In fact, I don't stalk any DUer, although certain individuals on certain topics I disagree with so much that it must seem that way. (Mostly in the "Guns" forum.)

As an early teen-ager I was indeed very bloodthirsty, and would shoot anything that moved that was legal to shoot. By my late teens I had abandoned that and would only shoot an animal if it was in one of four catagories: Food (Game Animals), Suffering (Livestock that had to be put down), Pest (Rats, Livestock Predators), or Danger (Back then that included any rattlesnake - on sight. Today I would let a rattler go his way.)

You are not precisely correct regarding the meat in a store. However, the effect of one person on a market involving hundreds of millions is like the effect of one raindrop in a flood. The effect is there, but it can't be measured.