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Hunting must then be not only permissible but morally good wherever: a) preservation of ecosystems or species requires hunting as a wildlife management tool; and/or b) its animal deaths per...
Contemporary hunting is commonly condemned in ethical literature as: (a) the killing of animals for sport; (b) by cruel means that cause excessive suf fering; (c) thereby immorally violating our obligations to honour animals’
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May 21, 2017 · Some people oppose hunting because, they say, it is cruel to animals, and so hunters must be mentally disturbed sadists. Actually, a sadist wouldn’t want to kill animals quickly, as ethical hunters do, but rather would want to make animals suffer.
Jul 28, 2020 · In this article, we investigated the extent and durability of hunters’ use of care language, including appeals made to sentiment, relation, compassion, embodiedness and situated morality.
- Erica Von Essen, Michael Allen
- 2021
- Three Rationales For Hunting
- What Bothers People About Hunting: Harm, Necessity, and Character
- Is Hunting Natural?
- Hard Conversations
One central question is why people choose to hunt. Environmental philosopher Gary Varner identifies three types of hunting: therapeutic, subsistence, and sport. Each type is distinguished by the purpose it is meant to serve. Therapeutic hunting involves intentionally killing wild animals in order to conserve another species or an entire ecosystem. ...
Critics often argue that hunting is immoral because it requires intentionally inflicting harm on innocent creatures. Even people who are not comfortable extending legal rights to beastsshould acknowledge that many animals are sentient—that is, they have the capacity to suffer. If it is wrong to inflict unwanted pain and death on a sentient being, t...
In discussions about the morality of hunting, someone inevitably asserts that hunting is a natural activity since all preindustrial human societies engage in it to some degree, and therefore hunting can’t be immoral. But the concept of naturalness is unhelpful and ultimately irrelevant. A very old moral idea, dating back to the Stoics of ancient Gr...
There are many other moral questions associated with hunting. Does it matter whether hunters use bullets, arrows, or snares? Is preserving a cultural tradition enough to justify hunting? And is it possible to oppose hunting while still eating farm-raised meat? As a starting point, though, if you find yourself having one of these debates, first iden...
- Joshua Duclos
Jan 5, 2017 · Every year as daylight dwindles and trees go bare, debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters see the act of stalking and killing deer, ducks, moose and other quarry as humane, necessary and natural, and thus as ethical. Critics respond that hunting is a cruel and useless act that one should be ashamed to carry out.
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Sep 15, 2015 · Hunting is unique in that our ethical standards are seldom on display; conundrums often emerge when we’re alone, with nobody to judge our behavior. Most of us like to think our ethics are wholesome, but the truth is our hunting ethics are seldom exposed to scrutiny. So what, exactly, are ethics?
