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Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" is a very
exciting story of a manhunt. This story made me think about the morality of
hunting: Humans are the cleverest creatures on earth, but does it
give them a license to kill the other animals and even human beings weaker
than themselves? I give below a short summary of the story to set
the scene and then I will explore the ethics involved in hunting as a
sport.
"The Most Dangerous Game" presents the story of a hunter, General
Zaroff, who finds hunting human beings as the most dangerous and
fascinating sport. He likes hunting humans because human beings,
unlike the other animals, can reason better and so provide a richer thrill
for the hunter. He does not think hunting human beings is an immoral act
because he believes in the theory of might is right and that the
strong have the right to kill the weak. However in the story General Zaroff
fails to hunt down Rainsford, who had the ill fortune to accidentally
slip......

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