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it's not a false dilemma. it's a real dilemma. and your solution is also to kill them.
Taking just the "solution" of reintroducing predators - it's still not the same. Predation specifically targets old, weak, sick members of a herd. What do hunters do? It's what, a tag limit and age limit, and that's it.
This whole conversation always seems so disingenuous. People doing hunting claim these altruistic motives, but have every adverse incentive that has nothing to do with those motives, from stocking their freezers to just bragging about what they hunted. Let's be for real here, you're not scientists or veterinarians carefully monitoring and managing a population, what you're doing is taking the first justification you can find for what you already wanted to do.
no, it's not the same, but your solution is also to kill them. if that happens, and people can benefit above and beyond balancing the ecosystem, that's even better.
Uh-huh. So of all the options - just shooting adult deer, or restoring the ecosystem to the way it was, or actual scientific approaches like sterilization, you're only interested in the one that benefits you, and then you start ignoring the moral implications, and associated risks like humans getting shot. See, the conversation would go smoother if you just declare from the outset that you only care about what benefits you, and we could drop the pretense that this is about what's actually the best solution.
being snide is unnecessary. you can apologize.
you didn't raise any moral implications. like what?