Windxtasy said...
There are sharks galore up there,
it's a risk any time you go in the water.
I don't see that one crocodile makes a whole lot of difference...
...not that you'd go in if you knew it was there of course.
A warning sign should have been sufficient.
Tourism in Queensland and the Kimberley survives alongside crocs.
I am going to Coral Bay soon.
I would still go if they hadn't shot the croc.
Anyway, a shark takes someone and there is a whole lot of debate about whether to shoot it or not.
This poor creature just goes exploring and they kill it.
I am a vet. I have spent most of my life trying to save animal's lives.
That crocodile had as much right to life as anyone.
Executed without even commiting a crime.
There is a big difference between the dining preferences of sharks and crocodiles.
You can swim with reasonable safety amongst most shark species.
Try the same thing with crocodiles and you you will almost certainly lose some critical body parts.
Sharks prefer fish. Crocs prefer anything, including people.
Try it some time. e.g. Go for a 50 metre swim across the Daly river and see how you go.
The last guy that tried it didn't do so well.
When you say "That crocodile had as much right to life as anyone." ,how many crocs do you think sadly missed this one which strayed outside it's normal habitat?
Did its wife and family all pine away for weeks because it didn't come home?
Were its offspring left without someone to provide?
Was it a huge loss to society who had to pay for its education and upbringing and now it is wasted because it's dead?
On the other hand, had it got a bit peckish and decided to snack on some tourist as it passed by Coral Bay, what is the cost to the world then?
If you're undecided, make it your brother,.. son, wife,.. parents, or anyone else you are particularly attached to.
The clear fact is, the two cannot be considered even remotely of the same worth.
If it comes to a choice between the life of a person or the live of a croc, what sort of warped logic would choose the croc?
If the croc was in its normal habitat, say in the Daly river, then you can't go shooting all the crocs to protect one or two interlectually challenged individuals who think that it's ok to swim amongst them. In this case you just leave the croc to weed the gene pool.
But if it's one croc swimming amongst hundreds of people in an area that it doesn't belong then you weed out the croc in some way. In this case it was by way of a bullet.
