User:Manbitesdog

I have made many edits to Wikepedia under another name (most of which have not been reverted) but I created this ID rather than using my usual one for this reason:

I have made some edits to the page on Foxhunting and I thought it might be a good idea to have a user name, but not the usual one because this subject could provoke strong reaction

I used to be slightly against hunting until I found out the cruelty case against it is a false case (because the other ways of killing foxes are just as bad) and now I am slightly for it on libertarian grounds

Where I am more POV is civil liberties: I object to things being banned for reasons of fashion rather than because there is a valid case against them. On the radio, I heard the Labour politician Roy Hattersley conspicuously make no attempt to defend the ban against the allegation that the cruelty case is false, and that foxhunting is a thought-crime to be banned purely because people enjoy it

While I have never hunted a fox and have no intention of doing so, I think people should be allowed to do it if they want to until it is clearly proven to be more cruel than not-foxhunting. For this reason, I anonymously created the section Animal cruelty comparison without which the Foxhunting article was not NPOV. My original source was an article I read a few years ago in The Economist. I supect that the Animal cruelty comparison section will need defending from POV alteration because it undermines an argument where many people are strongly POV

Manbitesdog 14:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)