I voted synthetic.

I love the beauty of a real wood stock, and have owned several examples of nature's ability to create beauty over the years.
I could be "politically correct" and say I'm voting synthetic to protect the destruction of the forest, but in fact I'm sometimes careless and have been known to put a cosmetic blemish (scratch or dent) on a beautiful piece of wood. When this happens it haunts me for days that I was so careless and I'm guilt ridden over it.

With synthetic the material itself looks so lifeless and bland it possesses no real beauty to my eyes, so how is a scratch or dent going to damage it? I can take the synthetic stock to the fields & woods and treat it as rough as I like and it still looks no worse.
It will never look "beautiful".