Abstract
In philosophy of sport, the internal justification for sports hunting is often that the chase empowers hunters to become skilled performers. However, this internal justification for sport hunting is challenged by two factors. One is the growing awareness that the hunted non-human animals themselves are skilled performers, demonstrating agency is resisting their hunters. Another is that recent developments in hunting practice undermine the internal justification by reducing the necessity for hunters to refine their performance skills, in effect allowing them to rely on technology and shortcuts in place of sportsmanship. Both factors reveal important justificatory deficits in modern sports hunting as closer to slaughter than skill.
Recommended Citation
von Essen, Erica and Allen, Michael P.
(2022)
"Skill or Slaughter in ‘Fair Chase:’ What does Animal Resistance Tell us about Modern Sports Hunting,"
Between the Species:
Vol. 25:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol25/iss1/7