Why do you follow the ethics you do?
04-15-2005 | 11:08 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Why do you follow the ethics you do?
Well since I started this I'll post mine.
Like most others my ethics are based on what I was taught. Some of those principles I still follows, others I have long abandoned. Experience has definitely shaped my views on things. I think many people encompass ethics to cover more areas than what is really meant. I have also learned to not pass ethical judgements on a legal hunting style that I have not personally done.
Like most others my ethics are based on what I was taught. Some of those principles I still follows, others I have long abandoned. Experience has definitely shaped my views on things. I think many people encompass ethics to cover more areas than what is really meant. I have also learned to not pass ethical judgements on a legal hunting style that I have not personally done.
04-15-2005 | 11:22 AM
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RE: Why do you follow the ethics you do?
My ethics come from my father. He always demanded that I be fair to the game being pursued. Of course, over the years I have come to decide for myself what being fair meant. I think the high expectations my father had for me, resulted in myself setting those expectations even higher.
04-15-2005 | 12:30 PM
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RE: Why do you follow the ethics you do?
Suprised to here this out of someone who misses 3 deer and wounds 1 to every deer he kills.
What does that have to do with ethics? Sh!t happens, even in ethical situations.......
04-15-2005 | 02:24 PM
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RE: Why do you follow the ethics you do?
Because its the law.No seariously,my grandfather,and dad taught me how to respect wildlife and the land a long time ago.I dont do anything illegially because I dont want the regreat years down the road.I know I wont get any satisfaction out of taking a live animal illegially,just for bragging rights or whatever.I want to harvest the animal by outwitting him.I want to walk in the woods and see the clean land today as I do years down the road with my kids.
Without good,clean,ethics,what do you have---nothing---thats why I am teaching my young guy about the outdoors and doing things legal,by the book.
Hunter(my little guy) asked me a while ago,he said ---Dad,why do people shoot deer at night--I said,Because these people have no ethics and are not afraid of the law.Maybe thats the only way they know how to hunt.
Without good,clean,ethics,what do you have---nothing---thats why I am teaching my young guy about the outdoors and doing things legal,by the book.
Hunter(my little guy) asked me a while ago,he said ---Dad,why do people shoot deer at night--I said,Because these people have no ethics and are not afraid of the law.Maybe thats the only way they know how to hunt.
04-15-2005 | 02:26 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Why do you follow the ethics you do?
My ethics have developed past what I was taught and mostly it's out of respect for the animals I hunt. Hunting to me isn't just killing animals. It's about trying to outsmart one of the wittiest creatures to walk our earth.
04-15-2005 | 04:54 PM
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RE: Why do you follow the ethics you do?
My ethics have developed past what I was taught and mostly it's out of respect for the animals I hunt. Hunting to me isn't just killing animals. It's about trying to outsmart one of the wittiest creatures to walk our earth.
Ethics and legal are NOT the same thing either.