I figure that if a coyote thinks I might make a meal, then I'm absolutely entitled to beat the crap out of the animal and convince it otherwise. I, too, am an animal and will act like one to preserve my life.

That doesn't change my opinion that there are WAY too many people. Too many people results in a huge destruction of biological diversity, and I am one of those wierdos that doesn't think that just because we're human, we're any more important or "worthy" than any other species that lives on the planet.