Trophy Hunting Good?!

[Martian Mermaid]

I'm posting this in question in light of this.

Philosophically, I can can think of few things I would rate as more depraved than trophy hunting. The thought of someone murdering a living creature so they can put its stuffed head up on a wall and brag about their crime makes me utterly sick. I regard such cretins as defective units, worthy of no human rights or lower animal rights. The linked article makes the case that the net result is good - at least in the case of elephants.

I'm too drunk to evaluate the article now. I'm sickened to think that the overall elephant population may be benefited by the disgusting, unethical slaughter of comparatively few individuals. But I'm a pragmatist. I'd like to know if there really is something to this argument - as much as it disgusts me.

I call myself a Secular Humanist but the act of the American people electing Donald Fucking Trump as President just makes me want to cry. I hate this man more than death itself. Maybe I'm wrong and our species isn't so great. Maybe we are depraved and disgusting and pathetic. Maybe we deserve to die and make way for evolution on this planet to come up with something more worthy. The election of Trump is definitely an argument in favor of that.

I am utterly disgusted.

Humans aren't great. In fact, we are the most damaging species on the face of the Earth. Never before has Earth dealt with such a destructive species. This is why I don't understand how people who actually think about it still think we are the most valuable species. We are a parasite, and trophy hunting is disgusting.