Growing up hunting in PA where baiting was taboo for so long I kind of felt the same way. However, after hunting in NJ for a couple of years and seeing that on public land there will be a pile of corn put out right on a well used trail that sits and grows moldy and seeing deer pass it up showed me that baiting doesn't improve your odds in some cases. It's just like anything else, a tool that can help when used at the appropriate time.