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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2086690" data-attributes="member: 20741">Demonstrably, the certainty that it will kill and eat another human being again if given the slightest opportunity to do so.Likely, the prevention of the continuing opportunity for the thing to propogate genes which seem predisposed to eating human beings  as an ordinary source of food.   When the pit bull down the street kills the neighbour's kid - you shoot it in the head.  When a bear kills 2 campers - you hunt it down and kill it. The same is true for a cougar or a crazed moose.  All of these things have happened - and in the past few years - in North America.But it's a 17 foot long freaking crocodile on a continent far, far away and you get romantic over it?There is no mens rea defence for a crocodile that by all accounts appears to be a serial man-eater.  83 people?? Let's accept for a moment that happens to be true.It's not about punishment or judgment. It's about making sure an animal which considers *you* food doesn't eat *you* and breed more offspring that act the same way to eat *you* and *your* offspring.Substitute *you* for the pronouns *him* or *her* and the result does not change. If this thing was an alligator that wolfed down a school bus full of kids near a golf course in Miami Dade, I'm guessing that it doesn't get tranquilized and shipped off to Everglade National Park.  Any argument about that?Not to put too fine a point on it, but North Americans tend to care more about African animals then African people.And as this is now germinating into political discussion, I think... 'Nuff said.</blockquote>

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