[Opinionated Blowhard]

You are right. Your last comment gets to a point I was trying to make. More and more you hear these naturalists employed by the government trying to convince everyone that we can co-habitate with sharks and that they really don’t attack humans and if they do, like you said, we have to be aware that we are in “their space.” It absolutely amazes me. I’d like to see some government naturalist tell that to a mother whose son or daughter was just killed and eaten by a shark. That’s not to say we hunt all sharks down and kill them, but if one exhibits aggression near a populated area, it needs to be killed, not understood.

[OldNewYork]

I'm not really against hunting down all of them (those species that have been known threats to humans) and killing them. That 'apex predator' business assumes that we're not the ultimate apex predator anyway. But I wouldn't be unhappy if we just started with those that are clear and present dangers. The eco-nuts also like to say that we're not their food, that when people get bitten it's because we've been mistaken for a seal or something, or the shark was just following a school of fish and we got in the way. But with repeat attacks like this, it seems that it would take gymnastics to avoid realizing that some sharks can and have developed a taste for us as prey. I know I've developed a taste for shark as prey. It happens with other predators, and even from this site I've learned that horses that have been given meat develop a taste for it, become more aggressive, and can go for a person's fingers when offered an apple, for instance.

I’d like to see some government naturalist tell that to a mother whose son or daughter was just killed and eaten by a shark.

Even more sickening than that image, is the people who have been attacked and in some cases mauled by a shark, who have been so indoctrinated they still voice the eco-nut groupthink line, as previously referenced: 'it was just doing what comes naturally; I was in its territory, etc.'