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Trophy Hunting Good?!
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RE: Trophy Hunting Good?!
(November 19, 2017 at 9:50 am)Khemikal Wrote: Here's a fun question, and it elaborates on my skepticism on necessity as a uniform moral modifier.  Suppose there was some necessity in hunting NPP Rhinos to extinction.  Would that reverse our moral appraisal?

A necessary evil is still...well....evil...right?

That's right.  The question is whether it comes down to the greater good as virtue, or abstinence from evil as virtue.

Man vs. beast, killing that beast is nasty business-- it will suffer, and its life will end, and I see both those as negatives.  But given a knowledge of the bigger picture. . . you can count all the animals who don't yet exist but will, and will definitely suffer (like livestock), you can count the lives of one species against those of another, and so on.
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Trophy Hunting Good?! - by AFTT47 - November 17, 2017 at 10:16 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by LadyForCamus - November 17, 2017 at 10:24 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Minimalist - November 17, 2017 at 10:46 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by AFTT47 - November 17, 2017 at 11:16 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 17, 2017 at 11:54 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by AFTT47 - November 17, 2017 at 11:59 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 18, 2017 at 12:00 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by c172 - November 18, 2017 at 12:20 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by paulpablo - November 18, 2017 at 12:27 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 18, 2017 at 12:53 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Minimalist - November 18, 2017 at 1:24 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 18, 2017 at 6:39 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 18, 2017 at 1:42 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Minimalist - November 18, 2017 at 1:49 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 18, 2017 at 6:19 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 18, 2017 at 7:11 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by brewer - November 18, 2017 at 7:12 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 18, 2017 at 7:20 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 18, 2017 at 7:48 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 18, 2017 at 9:30 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 18, 2017 at 10:01 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by vorlon13 - November 18, 2017 at 10:02 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Neo-Scholastic - November 18, 2017 at 10:56 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Minimalist - November 18, 2017 at 11:50 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Minimalist - November 18, 2017 at 8:23 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 18, 2017 at 9:34 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 18, 2017 at 8:35 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Minimalist - November 18, 2017 at 8:39 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 2:42 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 19, 2017 at 3:34 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 4:10 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 4:15 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 9:17 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Succubus - November 19, 2017 at 10:17 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Gawdzilla Sama - November 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 3:38 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 3:46 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 3:51 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 4:19 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 4:30 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 4:33 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 5:09 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 5:16 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 5:37 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 6:06 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 6:52 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 9:03 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 9:13 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 9:43 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 10:03 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by ErGingerbreadMandude - November 19, 2017 at 4:23 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 5:23 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 5:39 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 6:12 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 7:02 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 7:04 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by notimportant1234 - November 19, 2017 at 7:28 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 7:38 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 7:44 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 7:54 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 9:30 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 9:36 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 9:39 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 9:50 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 11:15 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 10:55 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Aroura - November 19, 2017 at 11:22 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 11:26 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 11:55 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 1:45 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 6:53 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 7:00 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 19, 2017 at 7:53 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 10:37 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 20, 2017 at 2:32 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 20, 2017 at 9:38 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 20, 2017 at 9:50 am
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 20, 2017 at 12:46 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 20, 2017 at 1:27 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by bennyboy - November 20, 2017 at 3:01 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by The Grand Nudger - November 20, 2017 at 3:06 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Martian Mermaid - November 22, 2017 at 11:28 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by Edwardo Piet - November 22, 2017 at 11:43 pm
RE: Trophy Hunting Good?! - by vulcanlogician - November 23, 2017 at 1:50 pm



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