Deer look pretty but where I live in Maryland they are all over the place thanks to development. At night they are all over my lawn, especially in the winter running from lawn to lawn and down the street looking for food..
They are a nuisance and a hazard here.
Lyme disease, running out in front of cars and destroying foliage.
I was lucky having two near misses driving around them, luckily they stood still.
In the fall this county allows controlled deer hunts on county lands and certain weekdays including behind my back yard.
Where they need to be thinned out, 100%, hunt them. No problem with that at all. But unless I was in survival mode, I personally wouldn’t kill a deer.
As far as car accidents go, I was nearly killed by two illegal aliens two years ago.
Who would I rather see dead, those two or a deer?
In PA we have deer hunts, within season, within limits, and within established protocol that ensures that the herd is not destroyed. They can be a nuisance, and are a hazard to drivers. If there was no hunting, they’d starve to death from overpopulation, be destroyed by cars and trucks, other predators, etc.
Hunters are as much a part of nature as anything else. Man has been hunting his own food since our beginning. The only difference is the technology.
Everything is food for something else ultimately. Even us.