What I find perplexing is how seemingly a well educated person, like you, can in one breath defend individual freedoms and in another express opinion to abrogate them.
I defend the right to do this but reserve the right to consider it something less than hunting. If you can't grasp that simple concept which is in no way at odds with itself then I'm sorry for you. It's pretty simple. A good analogy would be that I support the right of free speech even for groups like the American Nazi Party while at the same time despising what it is that they have to say.
One additional thought, could you provide us with the exact statute(s) which gives you the right to kill one of the people's injured deer. That would be great-thanks!
A doe in the ditch of a private road across our land hit by a vehicle. It was during deer season and it was daylight. Please if you will provide the statute I violated by shooting her under these circumstances? Not that I would give a #### if you could.
Because
I stand by my earlier claim unabashedly. Where our land is located and with what it would entail to contact the authorities (no cell service, very few homes nearby where a phone could be reached) and the likelihood (slim to none) that a county law officer would be dispatched to this area from Monroeville (well over an hour away) for nothing more than a suffering deer, I'd have put her out of her misery if she had been beside the only paved road in the area at midnight on the 4th of July. It's the merciful thing to do.