Pete Buist: You forgot to add something to your list: pain. You didn't mention the panic, fear, pain, and slow death that your traps inflict on marten, beaver, Labrador, coyote or lynx. Wilderness matters. Wildlife matters. Sharing this planet with other life forms matters.

Ten bucks says that during your life as a Taker you've come across a set and seen the desperation in an animal's eyes, watched it writhe in pain and fear. You caused it. You enjoyed it.

That's real.

What is emotional hyperbole to you is a deeply rooted, genetic respect for every component of the ecosystems around me.