If letting bucks go is ethical then I guess sometimes I'm ethical. If knowing your limitations is ethical then I guess I'm ethical. I would say abiding by the laws of your state would be more along the lines of ethical because that was a majority of people that proposed, passed and made those laws not an individuals opinion of ethical. Pretty easy to let a whitetail pass and still get a chance at a bigger one. Not so easy with elk or mule deer on the western front. Does that change the ethical game a trophy hunter has set as a standard? You have to be willing to go home empty handed and not brag about this years hunt.