LOL HAHAHA LOL!
Brilliant
I have killed something up around a million rodents. Absolutely, like you, I take no pleasure in it. Very relevant here is that we have become accustomed to killing these rodents as a mundane chore rather than it ever having been any sort of a challenge, and we don't associating it with gaining nourishment or feeding ourselves. If I got a job picking fruit I would hate that too within the first hour.
And yep, I totally get you with hunting not always requiring killing to be a thrill or bringing happiness. Sport fishing (releasing them live) is very popular, although I think it's cruel and distasteful to drag an animal by the mouth with a barbed hook, take it outside the environment is can survive in, then throw it back for fun. Imagine impaling birds or cats by the mouth, dragging them underwater for a quick picture then letting them go! People would literally be up in arms. I'm not going to actively try to stop anyone, and I'm totally into fishing (if I am fishing, I'm wanting to eat what I catch. I'd be feeling bored and guilty catching and releasing). But, it demonstrates that the desire to hunt is clearly in us. Despite not having an interest in sport fishing, I do enjoy catching snakes and a wide variety of other animals then after a quick look and picture letting them go unharmed. I'm sure a very big part of it is the instinct of learning to track, find and secure an animal (which naturally would be killed and eaten) being satisfied. For most people in touch with their natural instincts, especially men, making a kill while hunting is a thrill. There are variations for everyone, such as me personally finding no excitement in fish catch and release while others love it, and for you it might be more about the capture rather than the kill, and you may not see the distinction between killing a rat as a chore and killing an animal which you will personally eat and share with people who will eat with you (though likely after the fruit picking analogy you may change your mind). If I was hunting, say, deer, with, say, spears, or a rifle, or whatever projectile/distance weapon, and the food was my main motivation and that food was of high importance, the moment of the kill would be extremely exciting. That being a very natural situation in our genetic makeup, it's not at all surprising that people typically have a drive to kill animals in a variety of ways, or a predisposition to that drive. It certainly doesn't mean every person will have those drives or even the predisposition, and obviously everyone will express them at least a bit differently.
There are much darker sides to natural human instincts, but if this one is too confronting for most, I'm not in any doubt that effectively everyone here would be triggered and angry and unreceptive if presented with them!
