it’s not a blessing to be proud of, and it’s certainly not something to brag about
Based on your response to yesterday’s post, “Are Hunters Psychopaths?” the answer is clear: Yes, hunters are psychopaths. Therefore, by extrapolation, we can conclude that sport hunting is serial killing. There’s no way of getting around it. Not unless you consider non-human animals to be mere objects, possessions or “things,” but then you would be viewing them the way a psychopath views his victims. The fact that society still considers nonhumans as objects or possessions can only mean human society shares some of the traits of a psychopath.
Objectification is one of the benchmark behaviors of psychopathy.
Consider the words of Aaron Thomas, the accused East Coast serial rapist who says he doesn’t know why he couldn’t stop attacking women for nearly two decades. “They were objects,” Thomas recently told The Washington Post during a phone interview from his Virginia jail cell. “Whoever came down the street, an object,” he said.
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Exposing the Big Game 
My thoughts exactly–the same callousness, egotism, sadism, and psycho thrill seeking seem to characterize serial killers of both people and animals. What I find particularly disturbing and illogical is that while people have no problem expressing their disgust with a Ted Bundy or a John Wayne Gacy for their killing sprees and their evil character, most people don’t seem bothered by the same character deficiencies in Dr. Palmer or Dr. Seski. They just figure hunting is their “sport” and their right.
We need to overturn the philosophy and theology that postulates a huge chasm in worth between human beings and all the other animals of this earth, a chasm that denies moral consideration to animals. One would think decency and compassion alone would condemn our treatment of animals, whether in hunting, agriculture, science, and entertainment, but we accept all of it because, well, we are human and they are not. Even the science, for those who will see it, reveals that we all evolved together, and that we share 99% of our genetic material with chimpanzees. The old hierarchy of people on the top and animals at the bottom as mere resources needs to go. Until then we will continue to view serial killers and hunters as completely different.