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I think a lot of that fits into "ethical." Efficient and humane line up not 100%, but more often than not. Bad things: 1) You don't have a clean kill. Worst-
by frognumber 3y ago
I think a lot of that fits into "ethical."
Efficient and humane line up not 100%, but more often than not. Bad things:
1) You don't have a clean kill.
Worst-case outcome is a wounded animal surviving. Better is where hunting is right now: Clean shot to the lungs, and the animal dies in minutes or tens of minutes. Best would be one shot leads to an almost instant kill.
2) You have a clean-ish kill, but lose the animal
You hit the lungs. Animal wanders off before dying, and you never find the animal. It rots away drifting down a river somewhere, polluting the river and spreading disease.
... and so on. If we can get a shaped charge in a drone to kill an animal instantly, cleanly, and comparatively painlessly, it 100% takes away from the sport, but might be 100% more ethical than a 0.22 shot to the lungs. If we track it with thermal optics on an MQ-1 Predator Drone circling overhead, again, less sporting, more ethical.
(And yes, I can come up with examples of more efficient / less ethical too; as I started, things don't line up 100% of the time