When I'm alone most of the time I just respond with something like a joke and laugh it off as it doesn't bother me most of the time.
On the other hand I got to use this when my son was with me: "Nathaniel, this is an example of your typical ignorant, ill-mannered, human. Learn to spot them and avoid them as much as possible".
I have only had to use it once and the effect was exactly as you could imagine. Stunned silence combined with utter embarrassment and a deer-in-the-headlights look that was epic.
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. - Fred Bear
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