HuntingNet.com Forums - would you have done the same?

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ORIGINAL: nodog

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ORIGINAL: JoeRE

Yes. No reason to talk about it though. For me, in a very few instances, personal ethics takes precedence over law. However, to each his own.

I have tried to make sense of the direction our nation is heading. The one thing that causes the greatest amount of concern to me is the loss of personal freedom. The question is why is it slipping, more like racing away? There must be a cause.
I believe this in a nut shell is the cause. The law an absolute has been replaced by ethics and emotion. If some feel something is best then that is the determining action.
By supporting ethics over law you open the gate for anything that the majority feels is ethically right, the end of hunting is one of them. In the mind of many it is unethical to hunt and kill an animal. The law is what keeps tyranny at bay. If you violate the law the door is flung wide open for corruption to move in using feelings and fear to control us. Make no mistake; the law protectsus from the dictator. Give the dictator mindset the authority to ruleus based on emotion/ethics and freedom is dead.
It’s one thing to do wrong; it’s another to call a wrong, right. The vast majority of the respondents to this thread have confirmed what I already believe, freedom is dying. It is desperately gasping for breath and few are aware of it. It is being sacrificed on the altar of feelings.

I have to respectfully disagree with you on this. Freedom should not be directly equated to the rule of law. What is tyranny but the entanglement of law in every single aspect and level of society? History has shown what happens when personal choice is more and more restricted. The great empires that have lasted the longest did not do so by forcing strict obedience, rather options to a better life. Freedom does require the rule of basic law so as not to infringe on others rights, but it also requires common sense and discretion.

I actually see the same problem you see, but from a different angle. To me, personal responsibility is what is disappearing. I am perfectly willing to be responsible to put a badly injured creature out of its misery. The judge or Conservation officer who would find this unacceptable is a fool. There is the letter of the law, and the spirit of the law, as I beleive someone wise once said.