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Well, try this.

How about killing the bear so it doesn't attack more humans. Once a bear attacks a human it will do it again.

A lot of well meaning but stupid humans (ones that don't believe an animal should ever be killed) actually feed the bears up here in the Smokies, then when the bears get aggressive, they can't understand why.

Most of these aggressive bears end up having to be killed, to keep them from attacking again.

Yes, the Cherokee National Forest (where this happened) is where the bears live. But we don't live in the Garden of Eden like Adam and Eve did, and there are lots of humans in the world too. To allow a bear known to attack humans to just go about its business would be epitomy of stupid.

Your post #150 makes good sense, and to expand, by consciously training bears not to approach humans/human areas for food, we could save the lives of both. Feeding bears or allowing them to forage for human food or leavings unmolested trains them to move into the behavior that ends in killing. The less of this that is done, the more lives saved. The more bears fear humans, the more lives saved. Bears do not have to be killed to be trained to fear humans. I stipulate that this is effectively cruelty to animals, however it will save lives of both.