Tough choice? No choice at all. The victims were would-be predators; they just got "out-predatored". Approximately equally sleazoid, all around.
Me, I think it's funny.
For whatever reason this big of old doggerel came to mind; I disremember exactly how it goes: "Big fleas have little fleas, upon their backs to bite 'em; little fleas have lesser fleas, and so on, ad infinitum."
Art