The irrationality of hunting

In his letter titled The Rationality Of Hunting, David Borg Cardona expresses how unjust he finds it that hunters are portrayed and branded as killing machines. Then the next thing you know he himself in the same letter starts to express, in great, almost poetic detail, the pleasure he takes in the kill. He goes on to say that only hunters know that close contact with an awakening spring countryside, a dewy dawn in spring, the first warm rays of the sun on your face as you wait for the sight of such and such a bird (which is experiencing the same thing and does not know yet that life will be all over in just a moment to come), the magic moment, the beating of your heart before the expected rise of that bird, the thrill of the decent shot and subsequent retrieve. He thinks, he repeats himself, only a hunter with a gun in his hand knows what such emotions and feelings are like.

What absolute nonsense. Hunters should try nature photography.