acceptable reasons to kill - conclusions

[Eleanors38]

3. One quibble: Fair-chase trophy hunting is ecologically sound; in fact beneficial

for prey animals like deer. To shoot any, say, buck deer is to rather blindly kill off potential "trophy" size deer and thus prevent their contribution to the gene pool. Once a deer has fully matured and has its biggest "rack," it has contributed mightily and often to the gene pool, and is in decline. Often at his age, the trophy buck is no longer sexually active, but is consuming much of the browse in its range before dying a year or two later.

The problem is some game ranches which keep breeding deer populations in close proximity to each other, thereby contributing to disease like chronic wasting disease. This to say nothing of delivering a hunter to a WiFi, heated deer stand or bline sonthat he/she can "shop" for a deer. This practice is coming under sharp criticism from numerous hunting and outdoor magazines.

Other than that, it is acceptable to kill in self-defense.