> The most outspoken people against both aren't from the countryside, have never kept cattle or been on hunts, don't understand (or want to think too much) about the issues involved, but know that badgers and foxes are cute.
Where is your evidence that the the most outspoken people who oppose fox hunting and badger culls do so because they think badgers and foxes are "cute"?
Why would people who oppose fox hunting go on fox hunts?
Why is going on hunts or owning cattle or living outside of a city necessary to validate an opinion about killing animals?
> Once you start believing that issues are simple, it's easy to fit everything into that framework and to wander round being outraged or offended or insulted by things
It's also easy to write people off whose opinions you don't like/accept, by pretending they only hold them for ridiculously simplistic reasons.
Where is your evidence that the the most outspoken people who oppose fox hunting and badger culls do so because they think badgers and foxes are "cute"?
Why would people who oppose fox hunting go on fox hunts?
Why is going on hunts or owning cattle or living outside of a city necessary to validate an opinion about killing animals?
> Once you start believing that issues are simple, it's easy to fit everything into that framework and to wander round being outraged or offended or insulted by things
It's also easy to write people off whose opinions you don't like/accept, by pretending they only hold them for ridiculously simplistic reasons.