Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB

How can you write that when people like Scott Peterson (who killed his pregnant wife and thus his unborn child as well) still live?

I am sorry that he is dead, but you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Do you feel badly when a bull gores a matador and kills him? I don't.

Do you feel badly when elephant trainers get stomped and killed by circus elephants that are driven to madness by being forced to perform tricks? I don't.

I think the point that the writer was trying to make is that Steve knew full well what he was doing. Animals, domesticated or otherwise, are unpredictable. If you get into their sandbox you are taking a calculated risk that you may get injured or killed.

Sometimes you are the ball, sometimes you are the bat.

Sometimes you are the bug, sometimes you are the windshield.

Sometimes you are the arrow sometimes you are the bull's eye.

Originally Posted by cmac2012

I'm tending to agree with you somewhat on Irwin. He was likeable, but a little over the top, IMHO.

The strength in his bod was matched or surpassed only by the strength of his ego. He stood on the edge of the cliff plenty of times, and the last time he got a bit too close.