I greatly enjoy feeding ducks in my local park, so I am biased, but to me the reasons for not feeding them have never quite held up. (although of course they should be fed food appropriate for their digestive system). Specifically on the Malthusian trap, it seems that I either don’t feed the wild animal and it dies from starvation, or I feed it, it reproduces and then its offspring dies from starvation, which is neutral in terms of animals dying from starvation at least within that species.
I greatly enjoy feeding ducks in my local park, so I am biased, but to me the reasons for not feeding them have never quite held up. (although of course they should be fed food appropriate for their digestive system). Specifically on the Malthusian trap, it seems that I either don’t feed the wild animal and it dies from starvation, or I feed it, it reproduces and then its offspring dies from starvation, which is neutral in terms of animals dying from starvation at least within that species.