Basically, Zaroff justifies his hunting of humans with the
old saying "might makes right." It is acceptable for him to hunt human beings because
he is strong enough, powerful enough to do it and get away with it. As he
says
"Life is for the strong, to be
lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were
put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use my gift?
Zaroff goes
on to argue that the kinds of people he hunts are really inferior. He says that a hound
is worth more than 20 of these kind of people. So what he is saying is that he and
others like him are sort of a natural nobility. They were born superior and therefore
they have the right to do pretty much whatever they want to do to the inferior
people.
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