Were YOU living in the village where they are eating your children, and attacking you as you try to clear enough land to grow enough food to not starve, your sympathies might be more wih the human beings, and less with the self-propelled killing machines...
Saddened though I would be if any of my relatives became tiger food, with better than six billion of us talking monkeys on the planet I cannot see such as more than a familial tragedy. And like most of us I've been though those before. 'Though you do discredit to the Tiger there...
Too bad the white people didn't have sympathies for human beings when they killed off entire Native American tribes and stole their land.
Take another look at the literature and art of that era. They did, they just did not let that stop them from conquering the continent and remaking it in their own image. As CAnnoneer has observed, one set of tribes stomped on another. Its been such for as long as we have been human. To their credit, the original inhabitants of this land chose to resist the invasion. Something which it currently appears we are as yet unwilling to do. But thats a whole'nother knot to consider...
