Originally posted by YellowLabLover
A LOT of hunters do take down "cripples" when they run across them so they do not reproduce and pass on their bad genetics and mess up the population- it's called deer management.
I wasn't going to say anything but here it comes... :X

Okay, I may not know much about hunting or deer, but what if a "cripple" was just an old deer? How would that be bad genetics? They're old - they can't help it! And putting them out of their "misery" isn't an excuse to shoot and kill them just to speed up their dying process.
Another thought - Okay, so the deer was born a cripple... So shoot it. But would you shoot a crippled or sick child, so they don't pass on their bad genetics?