then are other predatory animals mentally ill?

ive never seen a lion walk into a store and buy anything.

they kill out of necessity? sometimes moneys tight, and i cant afford to pay for food. but guess what.....i live in a fairly wooded area out of the way. i can always go out and catch animals and prepare them. shocking i know. humans are an apex predator. everything is on the menu. from squirrels and frogs to deers and bears. if its out in the woods and it looks fairly wild. its fair game.

hunting is:

1. good for the enviroment less prey animals thus more greenery for the other prey animals still their to eat thus not causing mass starvation (Too many deer, so what? Well as stated above, the number of deer is truly more than the land can sustain. This damages the health of forestation and negatively affects other plants and animals in their efforts to survive as well. Deer also feed on our crops and our landscaping causing a financial burden. They cause car wrecks that directly affect human safety. - https://www.mosquitosquad.com/franklin-framingham/about-us/blog/2018/march/deer-overpopulation-many-problems-and-a-possible/)

2. hunting is a skill needed for self-sufficiency. (among gardenry and carpentry to maintain your home) if the world goes to shit and society collapses. you will wish you knew how to hunt. when society collapses their will be no "oh il just go to the grocery store to get food" you will have to go out to the woods (or maybe if theirs no real human prescense the animals will come to the city and you can just get one from your window and field dress it right their in the comfort of your own yard). and fucking track one, or at the very least, hole up in a tree until something walks by that is edible (as i said all animals are food, but id much rather bag a deer than say a squirrel.....it takes like 5 squirrels to even make a decent stew and even then i still need potatoes and shit to put in it to make it filling because squirrels have no meat on them besides organs.). and even then it depends on if you kill it quickly, or if you fucking suck and have to chase the fucking thing down and put it out of its damn misery because your a horrible hunter.

3. hunting is literally more beneficial than just for meat. the offal in the deer can be ground up and used in fertilizer to grow vegetables and shit. the bones can be boiled and cracked to make broths which then can technically be boiled down, for flavoring other foods. almost nothing goes to waste with good hunters.

i get it you live in "da big shity" your preconceptions of hunters is a bunch of hill billy fucktards going out with fully automatic shotguns drunk off their ass murdering everything in sight, which is laughable, are their drunken shotgun toting hillbillies sure. do they hunt more than they should. not often. do they usually leave alot of waste? yes....they literally kill it take the rump roasts and the legs and a the ribs and leave the rest. just their. out in the woods. will the animals in the woods take care of it? yeah thats a free meal for them. were they gentle and caring to the deer. very unlikely. your whole mis-conception of hunters is retarded. you hunt because of a need. hunger is a need. i dont know anybody who hunts for fucking sport. most states have yearly limits anyway (http://www.eregulations.com/indiana/hunting/hunting-regulations/) as a guy whos seen herds of maybe 35 deers all stampeding through the woods. i dunno why we have deer limits. theirs a overpopulation here but "3 deers a year" seems awfully low.

so i dont really see how hunting makes a person mentally ill but okay. if anything its less wasteful than most farms. most farms just sell the offal and "garbage parts" to fucking dog and cat food factories. which is fine. but most dogs and catfood can live on kibble....but are much healthier and happier if you give them actual fucking food not....bone meal with fucking flavoring.

anything you wont eat if you have left overs from said fertilizer or even your meal, can be used for animal food/bait.

but thats just my view. i dunno about your but my view of hunting and yours seem like night and fucking day.

Sure, sadists enjoy suffering. No hunter I know enjoys the animal suffering. There's a reason (other than tainted meat) no one aims center mass on a deer. If I gut shot a deer it will die all the same, suffering for hours/days. You aim for the heart so it won't suffer. Hunting is fun, but until you've wounded a deer without killing it, you can't possibly imagine how fucking horrible it feels.

Have another upvote, and try to keep a more open mind.