Comedian Jay Leggett dies after killing deer

[ElboRuum]

262. But that's just it.

I assure you that I am not trying to be argumentative here because you do raise an interesting point, and I want to address it.

The point is that this is not at odds with what we are from a biological standpoint. We may be predators but we are also sentient, which means that we are aware of ourselves and our actions. One may safely assume from that that at least on an individual level that there is a moral character placed upon how we predate, not that we predate. Natural conservancy is within our natures because we have the capability of seeing the real effects of our practices of predation.

Some like to suggest that our sentience should completely obscure and replace our predative natures, but why? Why is our role as a predator and our role as a sentient an either-or proposition? Seems that within a reasonable moral framework one can both aver the moral necessity of humane treatment of living animals while at the same time accepting animals as a resource.