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<blockquote data-quote="tbadon" data-source="post: 5824630" data-attributes="member: 21566"><p>Thank you for stating in words better than I can the fallacies of his argument. The bottom line is unethical people are going to do unethical things whenever they have the opportunity. It sounds like the major argument against the velvet hunt is the fact that another opportunity is provided to be unethical. However, that doesn't make giving that opportunity a bad idea or decision. The opportunity was given for ethical hunters to harvest a buck in velvet, something I have heard hunters saying they wish they had the chance to do since I was a boy(I am 57). I have hunted the velvet hunt every year and have only had one shot opportunity, and I hunt ag fields. I have one trophy(and velvet) deer in my lifetime because of that one opportunity. Giving people the opportunity to harvest a velvet buck does not make that decision a bad decision just because unethical people will take advantage of it. We would all be better off addressing the need for sinful people to get right with God. And yes, if anyone reading this is an unethical hunter(by definition a poacher), then you are not right with God. If any of you hunt over bait, stop it. If any of you spotlight to harvest deer, knock it off. You hurt the image of hunting and hunters to the non-hunting world. We know you are poachers, but the non-hunting world lumps us all together. If any of you know an unethical hunter, address it with him, or better yet invite him to church.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tbadon, post: 5824630, member: 21566"] Thank you for stating in words better than I can the fallacies of his argument. The bottom line is unethical people are going to do unethical things whenever they have the opportunity. It sounds like the major argument against the velvet hunt is the fact that another opportunity is provided to be unethical. However, that doesn't make giving that opportunity a bad idea or decision. The opportunity was given for ethical hunters to harvest a buck in velvet, something I have heard hunters saying they wish they had the chance to do since I was a boy(I am 57). I have hunted the velvet hunt every year and have only had one shot opportunity, and I hunt ag fields. I have one trophy(and velvet) deer in my lifetime because of that one opportunity. Giving people the opportunity to harvest a velvet buck does not make that decision a bad decision just because unethical people will take advantage of it. We would all be better off addressing the need for sinful people to get right with God. And yes, if anyone reading this is an unethical hunter(by definition a poacher), then you are not right with God. If any of you hunt over bait, stop it. If any of you spotlight to harvest deer, knock it off. You hurt the image of hunting and hunters to the non-hunting world. We know you are poachers, but the non-hunting world lumps us all together. If any of you know an unethical hunter, address it with him, or better yet invite him to church. [/QUOTE]
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