So let me get this straight: It's OK to catch an 8-foot alligator, but if he manages to outsmart me for another 60 years and become a 14-foot alligator, it's wrong to catch him? OK, sure, that makes sense.

One more thing. How am I supposed to keep this senile old fellow from taking the bait?

Sorry, Joe, but you sound like an abolitionist lecturing to Southerners on the evils of their ways. We're actually very comfortable over here in Louisiana with the way we catch alligators, and don't need preaching from out-of-state.