GB, I nerver CLAIMED to be the arbiter of ethics on this site, I stating my OPINION!! Do we have a new standard here saying that one cannot express his opinion on the subject of ethics? If ethics is not a legitimate topic of discussion here then hey, just stand right up and say so GB! But as long as it is any person should be allowed to express his opinion.
I think Dusty you need to learn to read your own postings. I'll copy it for you here so you can.
Legal SCHMEEGAL GB, we aren't talk'n about the LAW here!! We're talking about ETHICAL BEHAVIOR!! I don't give an airborne rodent's posterior if it's a ground squirrel or a Cape Buffalo, if you slay the animal and leave the meat to rot THAT is just flat out unethical!!!!!! To kill just for the sake of taking home a trophy head or skin without regard to the use of the animals meat is a practice common to the bottom feeders of society and from my perspective they should be held in contempt. Why this is not patently obvious to any human being with a lick of intelligence is his/her head just flabbergasts me. I sincerely hope that PETA crowd is not monitoring this web site 'cuz there's LOTS of ammo here to help their cause!
Now just where in there did you say that was "your opinion" or "your ethics" ONLY. Oh no, you put it out as a flat statement as if it were universal truth.
IT IS NOT.
I don't care what you state "as your opinion" on this or any other issue. BUT you're NOT stating it as YOUR OPINION but as FACT. It ain't fact it's merely what you subscribe to.
The problem with ethics discussions is that ethics are not universal. They are NOT written in stone. They are not the EXACT same for any two folks visiting this site I dare say. For certain your ethics and mine are NOT the same. That's not to say either mine or yours are superior to the other, they are just different because we are different folks.
If it's legal and IF the person faced with the situation believes it to be ethical then it is ethical for him at that moment in time. If it's NOT legal then personally I question how it can be ethical. Moral maybe. I think it's own HUMANITY not our ethics that cause us to violate the law at times because we feel it's the RIGHT thing to do. I see that as somewhat different than ethics personally, maybe you don't.
BUT damn it you are NOT gonna come on here and preach to us that YOUR ethics are the standard and anyone not conforming to them is wrong and that is EXACTLY what you did in the quote above and on my others you've made. That is what I've said ends and it does one way or another.
State it as YOUR opinion that it is such and so and I could care less. But you are not going to tell us what our standards of ethics must be based on yours.
