Dick,
I've read many of your posts and feel that the majority of them are right on target. I can't agree in this case.
Understand this isn't a defensive response; rather, I want to illustrate something. Neither I, nor any one that I associate with, is an "outlaw" now, nor was one then. I stand by the assertion that in some ways we respected both the deer, and ourselves, more when it was "one and done."
Consider your sentence again regarding your season being over "on the first day". I can't agree. Now, as back in the "one and done" days, you have the <span style="font-style: italic">choice</span> whether to shoot or not. Many of us waited to shoot a buck in archery season (and, again, made a choice whether or not to shoot or wait). By waiting, hunters sometimes looked at the two day "doe" season, and harvesting a doe then, a little differently. You still got to hunt the whole season and appreciated "your" doe a little differently. That one deer "meant", perhaps, more than being one of four doe tags used to "tag out", where individual deer lose their identity as we accumulate them like rabbits.
I'm sure there are biological arguments that you've very capably presented here that sway away from a "one and done" format. From a sociological perspective, however, it seems that we were more respectful of the deer (as your one deer of the year was soemthing to remember, not a number or antler score or something to cross off a "hit list"). We were also more respectful of each other, and didn't malign each other for choosing to harvest a legal deer. Rather, we all stood around and shared stories, and they were timeless; the sort shared around hunters' campfires since some caveman hurled a spear at some big hairy critter. They weren't about "booners" and "genetics" or "hit lists".
As it is, as I said before, the continued trend towards obsession with trophy deer, coupled with the commercialization of hunting in the proliferation of thinly veiled commercials in the guise of hunting shows, is unsettling.