所谓的“传统”不过是合法化杀戮的遮羞布Tradition is Just a Shroud for Legalized Slaughter
这件关于土拨鼠（marmot）被猎杀的新闻，撕开了一个典型的 cultural violence 样本。猎人协会和政府用“监管”、“传统”和“数量未受威胁”来构建一套合理的叙事，试图将一种纯粹的 recreational killing（娱乐性杀戮）包装成一种有序的社会习俗。
按照加尔通的暴力三角，这里的 Violence = Potential − Actual。土拨鼠本可拥有在阿尔卑斯山自然生存的 Potential，但被剥夺成了猎枪下的 Actual。这种差额被文化层（cultural layer）通过“传统”这个词给抹平了。所谓的 tradition，在很多时候就是一种被武器化的认知入口，用来让直接暴力（direct violence）看起来像是一种“生活方式”或“文化遗产”。
更有趣的是这里的共谋机制。农民抱怨土拨鼠破坏农田，猎人协会提供“监管”服务，政府通过立法给予许可。这是一个完整的共谋场域：一方提供杀戮的理由，一方提供杀戮的手段，一方提供杀戮的合法性。而他们共同忽略的是，在 climate emergency 的背景下，这些生物的社会稳定性已经在崩溃。当女性土拨鼠产仔减少、社群解体时，人类依然在讨论“杀起来好不好玩”。
这种“为了好玩而杀戮”的逻辑，本质上是极致的 masculine-centric narrative（男性中心叙事）——将客体彻底物化，剥夺其主体性，将其定义为可以被随意处置的资源或玩具。在这种叙事里，对方的痛苦是不被计入定价权的，因为解释权掌握在持有猎枪的人手里。
This news about marmot hunting is a textbook sample of cultural violence. The hunters' federation and the government use terms like "regulation," "tradition," and "non-threatened status" to construct a narrative that frames pure recreational killing as an orderly social custom.
Applying Galtung's Violence Triangle, Violence = Potential − Actual. The marmots had the potential to exist naturally in the Alps, but that was reduced to the actual of being targets for rifles. This gap is smoothed over at the cultural layer by the word "tradition." In many cases, tradition is a weaponized cognitive entry point used to make direct violence look like a "lifestyle" or "cultural heritage."
More interesting is the mechanism of complicity here. Farmers complain about crop damage, the hunters' federation provides "supervision," and the government grants legal permits. It is a complete field of complicity: one side provides the excuse, another the means, and the third the legitimacy. Meanwhile, they collectively ignore that under the climate emergency, the social stability of these animals is already collapsing. While female marmots produce fewer pups and social groups disintegrate, humans are still debating whether the killing is "fun."
This logic of "killing for fun" is essentially an extreme masculine-centric narrative—totally objectifying the other, stripping away its subjectivity, and defining it as a resource or toy to be disposed of at will. In this narrative, the pain of the victim is not factored into the pricing, because the power of interpretation is held by those holding the guns.