Human hunting is a quasi-urban legend, where certain people hunt and kill humans for the purpose of pleasure, entertainment, or sustenance. Some science fiction writers depicted fictional future or alternate history tyrannical regimes where the hunting of humans for sport is institutionalised (see The Sound of His Horn).
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... This criticism has been rejected by many ecologists because humans have the widest dietary choice of any predator and are perfectly capable of switching to alternative prey or even plant foods when ... Humans have indisputably hunted numerous species to extinction, which renders any argument that human predators can never hunt prey to extinction ... "archaeological sites dating to the time of the coexistence of humans and extinct fauna are rare ...
... The hunting hypothesis suggests that humans hunted megaherbivores to extinction ... Therefore this hypothesis holds Pleistocene humans responsible for the megafaunal extinction ... One variant, often referred to as blitzkrieg, portrays humans as hunting the megafauna to extinction within a relatively short period of time ...
... where aristocrats from the Scarlet Moon empire engaged in a cruel hobby dubbed "human-hunting" ... Avenger and its sequels revolve around a bipedal, talking deer which hunts humans, especially hunters, in order to avenge his fellow deer which have been ... around the player becoming the target of a human hunt ...
... Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting, climate change, disease, a putative extraterrestrial impact, or other causes ... landmass-by-landmass pattern that closely parallels the spread of humans into previously uninhabited regions of the world, and which shows no correlation with ... The high-resolution chronology of the changes supports the hypothesis that human hunting alone eliminated the megafauna, and that the subsequent change in flora was most ...
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“As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long- wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)