nostr:npub14lenmep3h3l8c3e2phayuet8mpuncs9td834qlxejha08gj9mzkqyugfws I’ve never heard population control phrased in terms of being for the animal’s own good. For things like deer these population booms are also driven by us removing their primary predator (wolves) for our own comfort. We also value individual human lives in addition to collective human lives, while (rightly or wrongly) individual deer lives are not valued, despite their species’ existence itself being valued.