I was picking on you, let there be no doubt. I used to hunt a little and fished a lot. I loved it and was very good at it. Then I spent a few years trying to start a business and had no time I could justify spending fishing. Then I became a Buddhist and, while not told to stop fishing, I was told it would/could be detrimental to progress in meditation on compassion and loving kindness. So I made a choice.
But I was also told that making distinctions, like becoming vegetarian because I would think of myself as being more compassionate than a meat eater, would be worse than detrimental to my practice it would pervert it. So that's my story. And it probably means as much to you as your rationale means to others. Possibly interesting (possibly not) but only really meaningful to you. : )
I could see the same sort of unbiased conclusions in your thinking and was fascinated by your description of the path to them. A process with no end or limits unless artificially imposed. FWIW my father was a doctor and loved hunting, fishing and his favorite dinner was a big juicy steak so there is something else at work there than anatomical knowledge. If'ya know whudda mean.
Now to work on my habitual nitpicking of others.