England and the Equine

I wrote nearly three years ago about the shooting by police of a white stag in Merseyside, Liverpool, which had somehow made its way into the city from the Outside. For most people, such occurrences are viewed with sadness, raising questions of "Why?", followed by more questions: Is it justified to save persons and property from the threat of damage or injury by dispatching this being? Such questions, of course, are closely followed by the rationalisation that killing a poor creature is in fact saving it from self-injury, an anthropomorphism rooted in the same rationale underpinning the self-euthanasia and anti-natalist lobbies. It is an unfortunate but necessary action.