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Originally Posted by trilinearmipmap
Clearly besides the cruelty issue there are effects on many other species when you remove a predator/scavenger like sharks from the ecosystem. So finning or otherwise killing sharks which do not endanger humans cannot be justified.
I do feel that for those few species known to attack humans with any frequency (Tiger Sharks, Great Whites and Bull Sharks) we should mount an aggressive cull program. Of course this is not the popularly accepted view, I have never cared much for going along with the crowd. For me, if something kills people, we shouldn't tolerate it. There is only room for one apex predator on this planet and that is us.
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Even the most dangerous of sharks pose little threat to humans, they are an essential part of the ocean eco-system, without them the oceans will be far more screwed up then they already are, you cannot expect to remove top predators from an eco-system and expect the eco-system to flourish.
[quote=trilinearmipmap;430202]The question is, do animals have a right to live despite the certainty that each year some number of people will be killed by them. QUOTE]
Yes they do, all living animals on this planet have every much right to be here as we do. Predators may see us as prey and by all intents we are possible prey, we have become too comfortable living in citys and modern society and many people seem to have forgotten that if we go into the woods or oceans, there might be something bigger that could kills us.
Might interest you that a non-predator is responsible for more human deaths in Africa, the hippo, should be cull all of them as well?