r/interestingasfuck • u/Odd-Difference-1483 • 18d ago

/r/all Kangaroos are freaking scary.

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u/Mithrak-Eldrus 16d ago

Probably, but hunting isn’t really a big thing here in Australia probably because neither are guns

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u/Worth_Specific8887 16d ago

There was recently an Australian hunter on one of the Meateater podcasts (don't remember which one) talking about how it's legal to get up to 10m away from hunters to protest. That hunters have to avoid all the popular spots and sometimes go way deeper on foot to escape the protesters. He did say that part has gotten slightly better the last couple years, but is still an issue.

Fuck that.

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u/Mithrak-Eldrus 15d ago

Yeah well deal with it i say. It pisses people off that people hunt simply for fun so people protest when they’re pissed off that someone is doing something they don’t deem to be morally correct. If you want to have it be illegal for people to protest against sport hunting then you’re going to have to fight to have all protesting become illegal which does indeed mean limiting free speech.

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u/Worth_Specific8887 15d ago

Oh that's funny. It's called "hunter harassment" in USA and it's illegal. Protesting is not. Most people hunting eat what we hunt.

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u/thirdonebetween 15d ago

I think something to keep in mind is how the two nations got started. America started with a lot of people who wanted religious freedom and were planning to settle a wilderness. Australia had convicts who mostly did not want to be there, and who were not trusted by their jailers.

There's also a huge environmental difference: much of America was forested, rich in rivers and lakes, and full of animals. It was much closer to the colonisers' experiences in Europe than Australia, which is mostly desert and scrub land and burns down readily.

As a result of those and other factors, one country was founded with a culture where hunting was possible (they had readily available weapons and animals) and encouraged as a means of providing food and self-defence, and the other with a culture where most people couldn't access weapons, the animals were weird, and there was relatively limited space to settle in.