it is not like a hobo mugging a rich man

it is more like germany attacking france in the forties

or a crocodile waiting a year for the zebra to jump into his river

or a grizzlie waiting on the salmon to jump into his mouth


the vast majority of the time the salmon has nothing to fear from the grizzlie, for most of their lives the salmon are swift oceanic creatures who are apparently uncatchable by the lumbering ne'er-do-well who sleeps for months on end but if the bear positions himself well when the salmon voluntarily makes himself vulnerable, the bruin feasts. we do not require the bear to hold onto the skeletal remains of his prey.
It would be in the general interest if bears did not eat salmon, but that matters not in real life.

in our game when in the fullness of time the frenetic netter finally allows himself to become vulnerable by storing billions in cash or millions of bushels to the patient predator we should not require the predator to hoard the useless empty acreage remnants of the fallen. Nor should we moralize that it is in the best interest of most if the predator did not dine.


i understand the prey does not like it but the prey is not morally superior to the predator nor is the netter superior to the suicider