[Skindiver]

At the time that rifle scopes were developed it was considered unsporting to hunt using them. Many non - hunters and some hunters, even today, still feel that animals heve no chance againt a hunter with a rifle scope.
Perhaps this is so. However the same hunter will not stop hunting if his rifle scope is taken away from him.
He will continue hunting with open sights and will resultantly wound and lose many more animals than with the scope.

Scopes and lasers do not kill more animals, but they surely will wound less. This is an ethically better outcome.
Ethics and sportsmanship though seem to be at loggerheads here as i feel at this time, in the current climate, laser pointers would probably be unsporting.

Skin.