JagMagMan- I was pretty sure that with your first post you had the right idea and just worded it in a questionable way

If youngsters are taught right from wrong, they will more than likely do the right thing.

I missed the thread about the ethics or people claiming to have done things illeagally in their past, but I can think of at least one situation where a hunter could be on the wrong side of the law but in the white ethically.

Example: a doe runs onto your property with its lower jaw blown off because some slob on the neighboring land tried a headshot. You don't have a tag for a doe. The law says that you cannot shoot this deer, and the way the law is enforced, you will be prosecuted for doing so (believe me, in my state, this is not an exaggeration). A law hunter who operates strictly inside the law would have to let this deer go, to starve to death in great pain. An ethical hunter could shoot the deer to put it out of its misery ( I think that an ethical hunter is obligated to do this whether or not the law allows it) and quietly take it back to the barn and cut it up for consumption. Either way, the deer is going to die regardless of whether or not anyone has a tag for it.

In the above example, there is a big difference in doing the right thing and doing what the law requires.


As human beings, we have no obligation to follow laws if they are immoral or unethical, in fact we have a duty to not abide by those rules.