Argumentative Essay: Should Trophy Hunting Be Justifiable?

Imagine you were in war, and you are getting shot at. Think about it how you would react. There are many types of scenarios where you could be attacked in different ways. Or if you were trophy hunting. It can save animal populations and is just as enjoyable. Killing another is justifiable by military ethics, hunting, and in the case of George and Lennie.

In the case of hunting for trophy, it should be justifiable because it can help save wildlife by limiting the amount of killing and keeping track of it. One example of this is “Though counterintuitive, the view that legal trophy hunting has a role to play in the conservation of wildlife has many adherents. As long as people are willing to pay big money to kill animals, the thinking goes, the private sector has a strong motivation to make sure at least some of them remain alive.”(Alex Dymoke).It proves how having trophy hunting makes sure that some animals stay alive compared to them all being coming extinct. Another example is, “ South Africa’s white rhinos numbered only 1,800 when trophy hunting started there in 1968. Today they're almost 20,000.”(Emslie,Richard, and Michael Knight).

It shows statistics of how trophy hunting has gradually brought the population of a low numbered animal population up by about 10 times bigger than what is was.
Another example of this is”those who are involved in the killing that takes place in more should be under the moral justification of killing in war”(Frank Misuralli).This shows how it isn't an enjoyable thing to kill a justifiable that it brings soldiers