ORIGINAL: hillbillyhunter1
ORIGINAL: davepjr71
Good post davepjr71. I agree.
I guess then that it comes back to the subjective. What do you or I or another member here think is unethical??Obviously, as we all here have pointed out, it may not always coincide with what is legal. It may actually sometimes lay on either side of the lawin a case by case basis.
Sometimes, as shown in this case, what the law allows is not ethical. Other times, what the law forbids, may be the ethical thing (ie. putting a wounded animal out of its misery after dark, when the law may forbid shooting after dark)
Obviously, as is expressed by the very action that caused this thread, the problem is, that all hunters don't feel the same when it comes to ethics.
Now this issue was a pretty easy one with an overwhelming majority on one side of the fence, but we all know of other issues (that don't even have to be mentioned
) that cause a much more even dispersement of those on both sides. Yet, many would say "keep your mouth shut for the sake of unity and brotherhood and let the law dictate what's right and wrong"
So which is it?? Speak out for what we each individually believe in or keep our mouths shut for the sake of "brotherhood"??
The age old question when it comes to ethics.