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'Nemesis' would also be appropriate in this setting.
NOUN (plural nemeses /-ˌsēz/)

1The inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall:
the balance beam was the team’s nemesis, as two gymnasts fell from the apparatus
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1.1A long-standing rival; an archenemy:
will Harry Potter finally defeat his nemesis, Voldemort?
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1.2A downfall caused by an inescapable agent:
one risks nemesis by uttering such words
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1.3 (often Nemesis) Retributive justice:
nemesis is notoriously slow

Lots of people implying that the crocodile understood what was going on.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Lots of people implying that the crocodile understood what was going on.

Lots of people implying?

Only people who seem to be doing that are the ones who are weeping the crocodiles tears.

As for the rest of us? It's a story about a man who killed the creature that killed his family, in an effort to gain some closure.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Lots of people implying that the crocodile understood what was going on.

I don't think anyone is doing that.

Who's crying over the crocodile?

It's just a fact that it's completely pants on head slowed to expect to get closure out of killing a creature that doesn't understand the situation that your upset by.

It's this moronic attitude that leads to animals becoming extinct. Normally our top predators.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Who's crying over the crocodile?

It's just a fact that it's completely pants on head slowed to expect to get closure out of killing a creature that doesn't understand the situation that your upset by.

It's this moronic attitude that leads to animals becoming extinct. Normally our top predators.

No, it's the moronic attitude that tiger claws can increase virility that leads to that. Where are you getting this stuff?

Really. You think it's stupid to get closure killing something that killed your family and thus preventing it killing the family of others?

I don't.

 djones520 wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
Who's crying over the crocodile?

It's just a fact that it's completely pants on head slowed to expect to get closure out of killing a creature that doesn't understand the situation that your upset by.

It's this moronic attitude that leads to animals becoming extinct. Normally our top predators.

No, it's the moronic attitude that tiger claws can increase virility that leads to that. Where are you getting this stuff?

Jaws and the subsequent and pervasive shark hysteria.

It's the idea that these animals act out of mallice, not instinct.

That they have human personalities.

I can't believe people are responding to this bleeding heart bait.

 Medium of Death wrote:

It's this moronic attitude that leads to animals becoming extinct. Normally our top predators.

Pretty sure no animal has been hunted to extinction for revenge.

My advise is that if some of you guys ever go hiking somewhere in bear territory, don't take any kind of precautions to protect yourself in case a bear attacks you, because that would be mean to the bear as you deserve to be attacked simply by being there. If at first scaring it off doesn't work, don't you dare shoot that bear to save yourself.

Also, arrest every shepherd that has ever killed wolves or dogs that are in the process of attacking their sheep (or themselves).

It sucks but the fact of life in places that are on the bleeding edge is that it's either the people that have to live there, or the local predators that would kill them. Every single place on Earth that people live in had the same thing, except the safe places are the ones where all the local predators were driven off or killed.

I guarantee none of us knows what it's like to live like this guy.

Well sooooorry for feeling sad for the croc. It seems that was a big no-no. I can't speak for other people sad about the crocs death but I'll explain why I felt the way I did.

Now this may be an totally alien view point for those in the states and abroad where I hear reptiles like alligators and snakes are regularly blown up and shot for sport but in Australia, we try to have big crocs relocated away from people.
Obviously the third world isnt able to do this and that is why I felt sorry for the croc. In Australia, it would have most likely been trapped and moved far away where it wouldn't have killed anyone.

As for victim blaming, I do not blame the wife and unborn child at all. I blame their community for not confronting the animal earlier. As sad as I felt for the croc, It should have been killed by the villagers before it could kill anyone.

Hopefully, this clears up my view on this.

Wait, it was big enough to swallow a human femur? Damn thing should have been studied not killed.
But quite frankly to prevent this stuff we need to work on helping these people get water and stuff along those lines so they dont have to go into the dangerous wilderness.

So sharks being hunted to extinction doesn't have anything to do with their daemonisation? People can get behind the cuddly creatures easily enough.

The ultimate argument here is that humans should be allowed to further spread into wild areas and that there should be no repercussions. If you go hiking in the woods and get attacked by an angry bear then that's your problem. If you bring a gun that's fine but you as the human have created the situation in which you will be in danger. The bear isn't sitting behind a rock waiting for "Those damn humans" to come by so it can maul them.

These animals are attacking on instinct. Taking revenge against something that can't comprehend the situation is stupid. What happened was a tragic accident involving a wild animal. You must have a hard time watching documentaries if you apply so much malice into the animal kingdom.

People are the most malicious thing on this planet.

 trexmeyer wrote:
I can't believe people are responding to this bleeding heart bait.

Opinion I don't like.

Bait.

Stay free with your brilliant contributions!

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:

It's this moronic attitude that leads to animals becoming extinct. Normally our top predators.

Pretty sure no animal has been hunted to extinction for revenge.

You say that, but look at what happened to the DoDo

The DoDo was hunted for food, but it was really wiped out by rats that ate all the eggs IIRC.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Wait, it was big enough to swallow a human femur? Damn thing should have been studied not killed.
But quite frankly to prevent this stuff we need to work on helping these people get water and stuff along those lines so they dont have to go into the dangerous wilderness.

A human femur is not very large for an animal that can swallow a gazelle whole.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:

It's this moronic attitude that leads to animals becoming extinct. Normally our top predators.

Pretty sure no animal has been hunted to extinction for revenge.

You say that, but look at what happened to the DoDo

Seriously? Who would want revenge against a DoDo? What did it do? Crap on your carriage?

Dodos are evil, they deserved to die, just like the Koala does.

Wow, so much bleeding heartiness and misconception here. I like the comment about tyebdemonization fo sharks caysing tyem to be pushed towards the brink of extinction... reality is that theyre being hunted for sport and for food more than they are for out of fear.

In any case crocodiles arent endangered (to my knowledge), and judging from tyis article the dude didnt go on a croc murdering spree, rather he sought out a verybspecific croc and all the action started and ended with that one creature. Hes perfectly entitlted to hunt the damned thing if he wants to, personally im more saddened that he opted to give the carcass to researchers rather than imoort some cajun seasoning and make some croc fritters instead, but thats just me.

It's the attitude to these animals that leads to their extinction.

Actually it's the spread of humanity across the globe that's the greatest threat. It's basically a variety of factors but everything is essentially our fault regardless of how you want to spin it.

Human entitlement specifically.

Its certainly not our fault that dinosaurs became extinct...

 Medium of Death wrote:
So sharks being hunted to extinction doesn't have anything to do with their demonization? People can get behind the cuddly creatures easily enough.

The ultimate argument here is that humans should be allowed to further spread into wild areas and that there should be no repercussions. If you go hiking in the woods and get attacked by an angry bear then that's your problem. If you bring a gun that's fine but you as the human have created the situation in which you will be in danger. The bear isn't sitting behind a rock waiting for "Those damn humans" to come by so it can maul them.

These animals are attacking on instinct. Taking revenge against something that can't comprehend the situation is stupid. What happened was a tragic accident involving a wild animal. You must have a hard time watching documentaries if you apply so much malice into the animal kingdom.

Probably because most cute things are not overtly dangerous, or at least have not reached a stage in their development where they become so.

No, there very clearly are consequences. The consequences being, in this instance, people get gobbled by what can only be described as some form of wingless dragon.

No one is making the argument that the croc was a naughty, naughty little thing and should have understood that killing people is a bad thing, because that would be silly. It would be like expecting a rock to know it shouldn't be stubbing my toe. What they (those who disagree with you) have been saying is that, because this croc was actively preying on humans and, therefore, was a danger to the human group, they're not too teary-eyed about the evil baby eating, man-hunting, obviously-malevolent, clearly-knew-what-it-was-doing, satanic feth-spawn (I'm being sarcastic here - felt I should clarify) of a reptile got the gak stabbed out of it. Really, this is a very natural process: one species has a very high fitness and ends up expanding, meets a competitor species as it expands and then competes with that other species. Eventually one two is out competed by the other and loses. Or, in this case, pisses off a dude named Batambuze and get the royal gak stabbed out of it with a fething harpoon.

This is how nature works, and we are just as much a part of nature as everything else. There is no reason to be sad about one animal being killed because it was preying on another, especially if it happened to be preying on members of your own species, specifically a mother carrying a baby. Additionally, not being sorry that said animal died does not imply that you think all members of that species should also die or are somehow evil. Neither does wanting vengeance against the killer of your wife and unborn child mean that you are going to actively pursue the eradication of everything like that killer. There is a huge functional jump there.

EDIT: Really gakky joke.

There is a vast, vast difference between 'oh my God, that shark in that movie killed people, we should put up nets and have indiscriminate shark-killing sprees that do a frakton of collateral ecological damage' and 'that crocodile ate my wife and unborn child, I'm going to go hand-to-claw with it and kill it with a spear'.

I sincerely hope he got some kind of closure from that. A crocodile that huge is...pretty cool, as far as I'm concerned, but if it eats someone? And that specific crocodile is hanging out next to a relative of the victim? I'd pass them the spear myself.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
'Nemesis' would also be appropriate in this setting.
NOUN (plural nemeses /-ˌsēz/)

Got a fix for you:

 Medium of Death wrote:
It's the attitude to these animals that leads to their extinction.

Actually it's the spread of humanity across the globe that's the greatest threat. It's basically a variety of factors but everything is essentially our fault regardless of how you want to spin it.

Human entitlement specifically.

Any animal weak enough to be wiped out deserves its fate.

See... in my younger years, I used to order my steaks well done.

Then, after living in Germany, where restaurant patrons don't really get much choice in how a steak is prepared, I learned the error of my ways in having many, many delicious steaks that were cooked to the perfect preparation known as "medium"


So, my friends on Dakka, I make this call to you: Think of the animals, and their well being; Don't over cook your steaks (but make sure you cook your chickens all the way, because Feth Salmonella and whatever other herpes like diseases chickens have)

Medium well is certainly best.

i prefer it rare. like i can still hear it moo rare.
I eat cows alive is what im saying

 Medium of Death wrote:
It's the attitude to these animals that leads to their extinction.

Actually it's the spread of humanity across the globe that's the greatest threat. It's basically a variety of factors but everything is essentially our fault regardless of how you want to spin it.

Human entitlement specifically.

So what are you waiting for start thinning the herd! This animal got his wive and unborn child killed, so he killed it, it is not as that he suddenly wants to kill all crocodiles.
You are taking this way out of proportion, It seems that you cannot understand the emotional distress of this man, maybe if the crocodile had eaten your favorite tabletop army the maybe you would have hunted it down.
Anyway in that spot of the world the crocodile will probably be eaten and he will have a nice outfit made out of crocodile leather.

The one thing that really should be hunted till extinction should be trolls

I would like to highlight this quote from thr article

"I explained to him that I was fighting a beast that had snatched and killed my wife and unborn baby. I really wanted my revenge, and asked the blacksmith to make me a spear that could kill the crocodile dead.

In English we would say, kill the crocodile, its very African to say kill the crocodile dead. It isnt bad grammar where he comes from, it's cultural to place the double emphasis to show real heartfelt meaning.

I knew this from an old Scotsman, a former soldier, sadly long since passed away who told me that when he lived in the Transvaal in the early 90's he had to show he was tough to survive. Break-ins were common, and the difference was in the psychology, you had to have respect, you had to not be seen as a victim, as the region was tough. He said that when he had someone at the end of his shotgun trying to crawl through his window at night, he didn't say 'stop or I will shoot you' he said 'stop or I will shoot you dead' with a strong verbal emphasis on the word dead. He said the extra word made all the difference in the meaning, eye contact too.
In Africa is fairly common to threaten to kill someone, life is cheap and death is found casually, and words too are cheap, but if you say you want to kill them dead, it means you mean it. He said it's not truly a conscious phrase, so its usage is fairly natural, and the double statement isn't therefore prevalent as a double bluff or loose gangspeak.

Just something to share, and to return to the anecdote when the old Scotsman said the word 'dead' with heavy emphasis the burglar immediately shat himself and started pleading and kept pleading until the police arrived. So I guess it worked.

RIP John, you are missed.