[user104658]

There is a large overpopulation issue with deer, HOWEVER the reintroduction of natural predators is a much, much better solution to that problem than allowing bored arseholes with guns to go out shooting them for probably pseudosexual thrills. In my opinion it's not really all that different to the sociopaths who go out killing people's pets... it's just a legitimate / legal version of it.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

There is a large overpopulation issue with deer, HOWEVER the reintroduction of natural predators is a much, much better solution to that problem than allowing bored arseholes with guns to go out shooting them for probably pseudosexual thrills. In my opinion it's not really all that different to the sociopaths who go out killing people's pets... it's just a legitimate / legal version of it.

There is no overpopulation of deer in Epping forrest.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

There is no overpopulation of deer in Epping forrest.

I just mean in general. The justification for hunting is often to "restore equilibrium", but the fact is, it was humans that wrecked that equilibrium in the first place by hunting and trapping OTHER animals to local extinction. It was a system that was working perfectly well for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years before humans decided that they "knew better" and decided to get rid of the supposedly "dangerous" wildlife.