From reading the first post, I think the idea is that this deer lacked any element of "the chase" or "the hunt." In other words, it was killing a deer rather than getting the experience of hunting.

I can relate. I've passed on a deer that would have been legal to shoot in circumstances like this. Going out in the muzzleloader season, there was a doe I could have easily taken standing just outside the city limits on our own land. I just kept driving because it just had no feel of hunting.