Pro-kill versus No-kill debate

**This was originally posted on 05 / 09 / 2012 on my old blog.**  

    A debate has been raging in the bigfoot world commonly referred to as the "Pro-kill vs. No-kill debate". Essentially, the pro-kill side believes that the best way to prove the existence of bigfoots or sasquatches is to kill one. The opposing side argues that, for many reasons, this is both unnecessary and brutish.
    Personally, I am a proponent of the no-kill stance. I will do my best to present both cases (in summary) herein.

    The pro-kill approach (assuming the successful killing of a bigfoot) would provide us with solid evidence of the existence of bigfoot. This would end the debate over the creatures' existence and allow groups who seek to protect them to do so with a larger support base from the public. As well, this would most likely result in attracting the interest of main stream science to the study of sasquatches. However, there are moral implications involved with killing one of these animals. From the evidence we have they appear to be extremely intelligent animals (perhaps even having a protolanguage). Is killing one of these animals akin to murder? Exactly how human are they? These questions aid the no-kill side of the debate in supporting their argument.

     The no-kill camp argues that killing a bigfoot is not only brutish, it is morally wrong. Generally, most no-kill supporters believe discovery of this animal should occur via photographs, video, and most importantly, DNA evidence in the form of flesh, hair, saliva, or nail samples (best case, all of the above). No-kill argues many points as to why we should not kill a bigfoot, the main points being: It is akin to murder; killing a bigfoot would reflect badly on us as a species; and bigfoots have proven time and again that they are not hostile to us, so why should we treat a peaceful animal with such fatal hostility?

     And still, even more argue that the pro-kill no-kill debate is putting the "cart before the horse" in that we have not yet proven the existence of sasquatches.

    What side of the debate are you on? Pro-kill? No-kill? Why?

Thanks for reading,

- A.Z.