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Is hunting moral? A philosopher unpacks the question

  • Written by Joshua Duclos, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University
imageThree generations of a Wisconsin family with a nine-point buckWisconsin Department of Natural Resources/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Every year as daylight dwindles and trees go bare, debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters see the act of stalking and killing deer, ducks, moose and other quarry as humane, necessary and natural, and thus as ethical....

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