Clearly my age and location makes me a total doorknob to anything related to this topic, and I apologize to all who had to read my post, and I hope I didnt lower the collective IQ of the site by doing so.
Rougue animals and aggressive animals are a different story. If it's a matter of kill or be killed, then sure, survival is above all else. If my neck was in danger from an animal and I had the means to fend it off to survive, I would do it. I'd feel bad if it resulted in the death of the animal, but I'd do it to save my own, or someone else's, life. But trophy hunting for keystone predators just seems like something we should have evolved past by no.
. And why do we have to wait for it to become aggressive(ie attack and likly kill) when simple population management(ie hunting) will prevent many occurances of such aggression? On top of that, hunting brings in money to areas that might not have much else goinng for it.
