The pleasure in the Kill

Recently, their has been great outrage over the killing of a lion called Cecil outside one of Zimbabwe's national parks by an American dentist. According to officials, the hunt was illegal and Cecil the lion was one of the park's and the nation's most treasured protected lions. We often observe farm animals being kept in much worse conditions than the huge national park that Cecil lived in and they are often subject to even more gruesome deaths than Cecil was. So, why is the outrage so great?

It seems the reason is that instead of being done out of necessity or for some justifiable purpose, it was done purely for sport; it was done purely to give this dentist an adrenaline rush and make him feel more powerful than the "King of the Jungle". The killing was not done for any other reason than to give this man an experience, an experience which he paid over $50,000 USD for. The article linked below, continues the discussion on the outrage and echoes many of the points made in this posting.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/30/the-guardian-view-on-cecil-the-lion-the-immorality-is-in-the-pleasure-of-the-kill