Modern hunting images are morally repugnant. Better to look away | Jonathan Jones
by Jonathan Jones from on (#GD6C)
The pursuit of online outrage about killing big game is a new bloodsport that attracts self-consciously unpleasant rich people who take pleasure in the taboo
Everyone is complicit in a bloodsport when it comes to getting angry about images of hunters posing with slaughtered animals. That bloodsport is the pursuit of outrage, the greatest game of all in the digital age. It is so thrilling to close in on your first really horrifying image of wanton cruelty to animals, and after that you want another. The death of Cecil the lion has unleashed a riotous thirst for images of slaughter that is currently being satiated, or more likely aroused further, by a woman posing beside a "dangerous" giraffe she bravely killed.
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