Interesting philosophical debate....I find the argument that "I hunt deer but would never kill a regal lion' pretty hard to digest. It's sort of like the guys who get teary eyed over some mutt but will sit around and laugh like simpletons 'cuz they killed a housecat with a shovel.
I don't have any issues with a modern big game hunt, but it's hard to deny that the past 100 years have turned what was a true adventure into just another way for a rich man to pat hisself on the back. It's no different than seeing some millionaires 'defy all odds in the face of danger' (yawn) by racing $30 million yachts up and down Lake Superior.
That lion probably had a better life than some lion they keep couped up the Cincinnati Zoo.
