Flawed in the Breeding

A pressure group which advocates for the sort of people who like to chase wildlife around the countryside and then watch it get torn to bits by dogs has apparently prepared a legal case for designating such jolly sporting types a protected ethnic minority. The group considers hunting an extension of natural selection, on the grounds that hunters only pick on animals that can't fight back or run too fast; it also claims that hunting is not cruel because its practitioners carry it out in the English spirit of grudging acquiescence, without personal pleasure being involved. It is certainly refreshing to see a British political lobbyist who admits to combining the sportsmanship of an impersonal evolutionary process with the self-pity of an English nationalist; but it remains as yet unclear why these stormtroopers of natural selection should not themselves stand proudly subject to the same benign and vitalising process, rather than squealing for Big Government to protect them.