I agree with you here mostly, I think. The difference is that I don't consider hunting that is noble or whatevz any less violent than sport hunting. I think all consumption is violent on some level, that that's what happens once one is out of the garden of eden, man must sin to survive. I think this is a really important and profound truth and that it's impractical to ignore it, as people often like to do with names which mean things like Light and
Sky and Neverfarts. There is something more honest about the name
Hunter, at least abstractly. And abstractly I do not hate the name
Hunter either. Same goes for
Clay, which is a much more honest substance than
Sky or Poet or whatever. But I do think of hunting as violent and don't find it puzzling that most people see it that way.