Josh, i understand you from that point, but if you have private land to hunt, manage it!
I do ALL of my hunting from private land (half is owned by myself or family, the other half by a game warden I'm friends with), and we do manage it. We require the harvesting of does, but we certainly dont belittle someone if they want to take a 1.5 year old buck. I'm really not comdeming anyone who managing the deer on their land the way they want - I just expect equal treatment if I chose to manage my land differently.