Game of Drones. On the Moral Significance of Deception in Modern Sport Hunting
Game of Drones. On the Moral Significance of Deception in Modern Sport Hunting
Author(s): Erica von Essen, Michael Allen, Lara TickleSubject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Sports Studies
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Deception; Sports; Ethics; Hunting; Trapping; Animal Rights; Harm; Killing;
Summary/Abstract: The seeming absence of mutual consent in interspecies sports makes it difficult to justify non-human animals participating on equal terms with humans in for example sport hunting. Nevertheless, hunted animals might appear to be ‘playing the game’ to the extent they resort to counter-deceptions, which often fool the hunters or their dogs. In this paper, we consider whether counter-deception by hunted animals is evidence that they are not playing the hunter’s game at all, or rather playing a different serious game of survival, one in which they repudiate the role of ‘worthy opponent’ instead by playing the role of trickster-resistors.
Journal: The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence
- Issue Year: 4/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 137-157
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English