Should sport-hunting be banned?

Some tribes and communities hunt exclusively for food. Sport-hunting, on the other hand, has a different object. This should be remembered.

The object is to shoot (or pierce) an animal unaware of your presence for the sake of excitement, thrill, expertise, and so on. The animal is then taken either to a butcher as a gift or discarded, so long as the hunter himself or the group takes notice of the "kill." It is that notice, and the prize thereof, which fuels the hunt.

This sport, unlike other sports, as in archery, target shooting at a range, etc., involves, as the moralist Regan pointed out, a subject-of-a-will; it is, in a word, a life, a living-in-motion, and moves from here to there for food, entertainment, shelter, and so on- much as what we would do in that set of circumstances.

And, I agree with Craven and NobleCon: the deer may not starve necessarily, and green berets would be the most excelllent choice.