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Originally Posted by jammies
Me. Next question?
PS: I'm not keen on hunting in general, but hunting for meat is understandable, if not something I would ever do (unless the zombie apocalypse comes, of course).
Hunting for pleasure or trophies - well, you're causing pain and/or killing for "fun". Cruelty for its own sake is morally wrong, and I don't really see where you can make an argument for it. That the cash paid by trophy hunters has enabled the recovery of some species is irrelevant, as in most cases it's hunting coupled with habitat destruction that put the species in peril in the first place.
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That's true, but it's also beside the point. If controlled hunting can stabilize an endangered population and result in habitat protection it's obviously having a positive impact. Previous behavior that caused an issue doesn't change that. Whether or not it's moral to allow some animals within a species to be hunted in order to allow the species as a whole to survive is another discussion.
Note: I'm presuming that this trophy hunting protects helps to protect endangered species argument is actually legitimate, and not just a story cultivated by practitioners.