Originally Posted by
JBen
Wow, am staying clear of this one. But feel compelled to respond to just this.
Yes I do intend to continue riding my moral high horse around, fortunately I was taught from an early age that moral and ethical values are what truly defines a person and I will make avery effort to pass that on. As for the lack of intelligence to recognize and differentiate between law and ethics, I wouldn't realistically expect any meat hunter to possess such capacity let alone recognize between right and wrong regardless.
Then you were raised wrong. Well perhaps more correctly raised with an incorrect understanding of morals and ethics.
1) Morals are not universal. Your post on the subject seem to suggest you think they are and only your morals are right. Gee that's awfully moral of you.....
But to illustrate how wrong your understanding of morals is, I'll use an extreme example.
Many people in the world think its morally wrong to eat meat period.......
many think it's immoral to kill animals....period
Many more think we are animals and morally bankrupt because we eat beef, because to them cows are sacred. In fact we think it's immoral to eat dogs and horses. Millions of people on the other side of the globe.....
Many in the mid east think we are animals and morally bankrupt because we ( name so many things). One persons terrorist, is another persons freedom fighter.
Morals?
lol
But don't worry only your morals are right, right?
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On law and ethics.
While they are different, in many ways they aren't. Sounds like ( and I could be mistaken here) your confusing ethics.
Ethics are a code of conduct. Many professions have them for example. Lawyers, Doctors, Banker types, and many more. They often have their own bodies that guess what.....govern the codes and discipline people who break them.
In hunting we don't have such a governing body. Will never have one because some think their sense of right and wrong is right and others are wrong. Example many think hunting over bait doesn't follow the principle of fair chase (unethical), many other's do (ethical)
So who gets to play god.
you? Me?
The closest we have to Ethics and a code of conduct in the absence of a formal code of ethics is guess what. The FWCA and the laws. So at least as far as "ethics" go, hunting and differentiating from the law. Buzz your wrong.
So as far as hunting goes
If your within the law, your an ethical hunter
If your not within the law, that would be unethical
This isn't much grey or wiggle room in that.
I may feel that morally, it's not right to take and consume a daily limit. Those are "my" morals. I may feel theres nothing wrong with it, again my morals. Far be it for anyone to argue or say otherwise. Its certainly ethical (within the law/code of conduct).
You should study some of the great philosophers on the topics or morals and ethics. Maybe even think about some of the basic "test"...aka moral dilemma's. One such classic is
Your wife and a child are drowning. You can only save one them. Which do you let die?
Too each their own, morals are not universal. I know which my morals would have me saving. The next person? Their morals may say save the other. Who are they to say my moral compass is "wrong".
To the OP
Glad you had a great time visiting this wonderful province
