The fact that there is on outrage over this lion and not over any other hunting ‘victim,’ is due to having associated personality and near human dignity to it. That is a serious example of how the priorities in this world are so out of order.
Not saying that hunting is proper. I agree with those before who said that it is not. But this is not about hunting, or it would’ve been all over the news any one of the hundreds or thousands of other times it has happened. This is about elevating an animal to quasi human status.
As an aside, research shows that this lion earned its position in a fight between he and his brother against a lion who had the position before. His brother (Leander) was killed by that other lion (Mpofu). Mpofu had his leg broken in that fight, and was put down. Not such a sweet little Babmi, our friend Cecil. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Or as Rabban Gamliel put it, “Al d’atfeich atfuch, etc.”