[scarface_74]

I’m not against hunting - I think it’s hypocritical for anyone who eats meat to tsk tsk at hunting.

But doesn’t a hunter with a gun already give you an unfair advantage over a deer?

[samatman]

The unfair advantage is over other hunters.

Hunters would prefer to hunt by daylight, for the most part. If light-hunting at night were allowed, that would be the only way to take the best game, because as the comment you're responding to notes, it's much easier.

So everyone would be forced to do the thing they don't want to do, if they want to take a deer at all. That's a bad equilibrium, what we call "not sporting".

[scarface_74]

Seriously, your post was the second one talking about an unfair advantage.

As a non hunter, I was thinking of hunter vs deer not hunter vs hunter. That makes perfect sense.

[danlugo92]

Makes sense.

[rcurry]

Not trying to be a jerk, believe me, but try it some time. Deer have this mysterious ability to f*cking vanish during hunting season. In one town I lived in 3M had a plant with a little pond that was fenced off. During deer season all the deer would hop the fence and hang out at the factory because they knew nobody was allowed to hunt there. It was hilarious.

[ChoGGi]

I'm always entertained by how deer will wait at sidewalks for you to stop or drive by (excluding the dead ones).

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/IssfH8d.jpeg

[alephnan]

Sounds like natural selection. The ones that had that intuition survived, and the ones that didn’t were removed from the gene pool.

[lobocinza]

I would be afraid to eat meat from those animals as they were drinking water from "3M fenced pond".