When I was in college we were taught all about "man the hunter," the males going out and bringing back the big game and the women collecting the veggies.
It now appears that the reality could not have been more wrong -- that only in the last 20,000 years or so have humans had the technology to bring down big game at all, and that previous associations with such animals were examples of human scavenging. While "hunter-gatherer" societies did sometimes get small game, like maybe a rabbit or two, mankind did not evolve as the hunter but as the scavenger and root digger, and both men and women participated in both.
It is true some people get a thrill out of killing an animal. I feel sorry for them and their karma.
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