Hunting with a gun, for me pretty much guarantees food on the table.

Feeders are the same way.

I only get to hunt a sad few days out of the year(this year a full week, more than I've hunted in one year since 1997), but my family depends on the meat I provide... therefore I make every "fair" attempt to provide that meat for my family.(I hunt for my wife and I, but also for my brother, his wife and 3 kids, and my sister and her husband and going on 4 kids). Yes we can afford beef fromKrogers, but that money comes from somewhere and effects something else formus down the line.

Does that mean that on the 4th day if I havn't killed a deer yet I wont pick up my .308? absolutely...

Does that mean I walk into a cage and kill an animal with ZERO chance to escape? Absolutely not.

Personally, I think that ethics are not a "slippery slope" but rather like you said a firm difference between right and wrong.

I dont understand you point, are you b!@#ing about the all the b!@#ing ? Or arguing in favor of High-fence? Or are you saying that all those things, that may or may not give an unskilled hunter a teensy little more of an edge on their quarry, are ruining hunting as you see it? Atlas, I really don't get it... I think you're just here to gripe and see how PO'd you can get people. I don't know you from Adam, but you really know how to use alot of words to say basically nothing.