people are terrified of real bears, they love to see them emasculated and turned into harmless gummi bears, although they should probably be even MORE terrified of female bears, who have no male genitalia, because female bears are more likely to attack you defending their cubs.

Hunters love to hunt bears because they are afraid of them, if they deny it, just ask them why they won't engage in a fair fight with a bear, with no gun. They are terrified of feeling terrified, these fears of being in the wild, make them feel bad and they must assuage these icky feelings of fear in some way. Eating the neutralized gummy bear is a way of gaining magic power of their ancient instinctual fear of bears.


Most hunters have no real fear of the bear, as long as they have a gun, so it's a controlled, risk free way to face down a physical threat, the bear is actually playing the role of a human adversary, but they can legally take out their sadism on these animals.