You’re absolutely right. I know hunters who shoot the legs out from deer and then slash them with razors until they die a slow, painful death.
When I catch a fish, especially a short, I make sure that I rip the hook out of its guts before I throw it back to die.
If I can’t keep it, why should I let it live?
Deliberate cruelty is horrendous and inhuman.
I eat meat. I love fishing. Anyone who cannot understand the difference between killing a chicken for food and betting on cockfights is too dense to understand anything.
Any hunter who does that deserves a Brooklyn-style beating in the parking lot.