Gary+E.+Varner

While Gary Varner can be seen as being from the individualist perspective (how? why does Palmer see him this way?), his viewpoint on therapeutic hunting is distinctly holistic. Gary E. Varner posits that management of obligatory management species, and permissive management species can be justified if it is for the good of the ecological community as a whole. He claims that “bumper sticker” versions of animal rights make it seem as though people in this camp are against hunting, but that logic makes it so that people who truly believe in animal rights philosophies (Peter Singer and Tom Regan in particular) ought to be in favor of therapeutic hunting (hunting of animals to maintain sustainable population numbers in an area). (good - but why would this follow according to Varner?; also - other important concepts introduced by Varner to EE?)


 * Quotation(s) articulating key arguments:**

//“It is my view that without resolving the theoretical question of which individuals (if any) have moral rights, we can still hope to make some progress on the practical question of which hunting policy to adopt.”//

//“...the production of some evil, can be justified by the preservation of good.” (Thompson)//