Woman killed by alligator was visiting home to do owner's nails, tried to touch the gator

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69. Disagree strongly. The alligator learned nothing except that this woman offered herself.

She was easy prey because she made herself so.

This myth of "getting a taste for human blood" is just that, a myth.

Predatory animals survive on opportunity, not Wile E. Coyote-type schemes.

According to the property owners, the gator had recently brought down a deer. That doesn't mean it is going to go out of its way to hunt deer from that point on, either. They take what they can get. Almost exclusively, that is other swamp-dwelling creatures. If humans go into the swamp, that makes them prey. That's just how it works.

I'll concede your point that our society has messed-up values that prioritize humans. We're finally learning that it a very short-sighted and ultimately destructive attitude to have. We destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.

There was no need, and no useful purpose in killing this alligator. There is no such thing as "revenge" for it having killed a human. You haven't taught it, or any of its kind, a "lesson."

The human race has simply once again proved that it is needlessly violent and domineering.