Because hunting is necessary to keep the balance of species in the wilderness in check. That's why you cannot shoot everything at any time.
For example, wild boars are a huge problem because they tend to absolutely demolish their environment and then move to a different spot, rinse and repeat. Thus, you have to keep their numbers down to actually protect the wilderness.
If someone shoots a bear out of season, that's illegal and you ahould report him.
Huh, interesting you can still see that comment. I was sort of drunk and being flippant and I don’t actually remember what I wrote (and I can’t see it now!).
Maybe it takes a while for a comment to be deleted on all instances. Not really sure how Lemmy works under the hood as I'm kinda new. I can still see the comment.
In any case, don't sweat about it, it wasn't something nasty. Just, yeah as you said, flippant.