I think urb_banal has it; I think it's a cold-blooded/warm-blooded bias, and maybe also on top of that a familiarity thing: we walk the same ground as the lion, but we don't swim in the water with the marlin.
But yeah, as everyone is saying, they're both pretty horrible because they show people delighting over a creature's death--and not a creature that was threatening them in some way, but a creature they set out to destroy unprovoked, as it were.
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Date: 2013-02-24 10:18 pm (UTC)But yeah, as everyone is saying, they're both pretty horrible because they show people delighting over a creature's death--and not a creature that was threatening them in some way, but a creature they set out to destroy unprovoked, as it were.