[The Bacon Guy]

Quote by: Matt He has never said all trends, but he does comment that most trends that have been happening for a while will continue.

Source?

Quote by: Matt How is my arguement based on religion? Look at my previous posts.

If you believe that wolves are a superior predator to humans based on the belief that God created wolves to hunt deer, then that aspect of your argument is based entirely on religion.

Quote by: Matt Do you understand what 'population control' is? If some deer come onto 'our' land, that does not mean the cougars and wolves are not doing a good enough job. It means the deer are just moving about grazing, like they would have before we came here. You can't expect an animal to say "Oh, this is human land, I better go back into the bush".

Of course we can’t, which is why we have to keep the population low enough that this is not an issue.

Quote by: Matt Deer eating our gardens or walking in the local park does not mean they are overpopulated. So if we re-introduce wolves and cougars, they bring them down to levels where no deer is starving, everything is good, even if they go eat our gardens or walk around in the local park. Since, if you remember, the meaning of the word overpopulated, deer would no longer be technically overpopulated, since they aren't starved.

A species is overpopulated when it exceeds its habitat’s ability to cope. If the deer are leaving their own habitat to find food on ours, then their needs are obviously not met by their own habitat.

Quote by: Matt They don't know it is our property, do they? They would normally roam around across North America, and we are restricting them greatly. So we should not kill them just because they are on 'our' property. Unless you believe deer have the mental capacity we do, then they would know, and it would be then illegal to hunt them.

It doesn’t matter if they are aware that they’re damaging our property. An intrusion of cockroaches infesting my house isn’t aware that it’s doing so, but that doesn’t change my right to call in pest control.

Quote by: Matt Hunting may sometimes work at keeping the population down of deer, but it is no way necessary. See dictionary meaning: being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor. Hunting is not necessary, since I have proven re-introducing natural predators could work too (it may be more money, but it would work).

Of course there are other ways of keeping the population under control. The point is that hunting is a perfectly valid and in many ways superior method of doing so. We don’t make something illegal simply because it’s not deemed to be unconditionally necessary.

And don’t say that you haven’t been arguing for a ban on hunting because your posts would suggest otherwise.

Quote by: SD As I say, if killing for whatever reason, no matter how justifiable, gives you enjoyment, you have a psychological problem, by definition,

What definition?