Comedian Jay Leggett dies after killing deer

[ElboRuum]

245. I don't assume that.

Nor do I accept the rhetorical implication of your query as unassailable axiom.

Turned around, why assume that we are always morally required to act contrary to what we [are] from a biological standpoint?Tur

I don't see morality as a fiat or even admonition coming from some divine, divine-like, or even naturalist punitive entity, but rather for what it is, a human construct that serves a societal end. Thus, morality is incumbent within the choices we make, and thus morality must be accepted by the individual, and does not manifest as a requirement. Our biology gives us certain proclivities which some might find immoral, but that's just it. I don't feel that the act of killing an animal is an incipiently immoral act. I think, to satisfy a reasonable moral framework, it should be purposeful, for example, I can look past trophy hunting if it is done in the service of culling an animal population which will go out of control without that action. And there is nothing to say that the bulk of the meat couldn't be sold after a kill designed for a wall mount. I don't have a problem with killing an animal for its skin for clothing, so long as the rest goes to food or is otherwise purposed. I believe that animals serve a limited resource role for humanity and always have, but like all resources, I am more torqued up in the negative by its waste than the fact that it is a resource. Hunting a species to extinction is abominable because that is the ultimate in wasteful, even if there is efficient use of the animal in every case. Domestication requires an additional layer of morality insofar as, even if the animal is to be killed for consumption of some form, it should be otherwise well cared for and treated humanely until such time as its end comes.

This, as a sentient predator, serves for me as a sufficient framework of morality when it comes to animal resource consumption (it is abridged a bit for the sake of brevity, just in the interest of understanding). Some will disagree.