I get where you’re coming from, but you’ve already pointed out why utilitarian pain-minimising strategy is flawed - it always assumes rational actors and avoids its place in the larger surrounding system of desires. Hunters aren’t perfect agents of solemn death, and animal attacks are also not guaranteed to be drawn-out gore baths where the deer is a powerless victim.
Since the entire affair is created to serve, and tainted by, the desire to make a profit, I don’t think the argument can be resolved either way without first eliminating that.
yeah breeding deer in particular doesn’t make any sense other than the profit motive, whether directly or for selling hunting licenses and moving various knock on economic activity to specific business or places instead of whatever people would buy instead if hunting was less available.
I get where you’re coming from, but you’ve already pointed out why utilitarian pain-minimising strategy is flawed - it always assumes rational actors and avoids its place in the larger surrounding system of desires. Hunters aren’t perfect agents of solemn death, and animal attacks are also not guaranteed to be drawn-out gore baths where the deer is a powerless victim.
Since the entire affair is created to serve, and tainted by, the desire to make a profit, I don’t think the argument can be resolved either way without first eliminating that.
yeah breeding deer in particular doesn’t make any sense other than the profit motive, whether directly or for selling hunting licenses and moving various knock on economic activity to specific business or places instead of whatever people would buy instead if hunting was less available.