In the grand scheme of world poverty, lack of simple clean water and sanitation or food for millions around the world, who the hell cares about 1 lion? (that statement is sweeping but is meant to be thought promoting and not aggressive or argumentative)
We might not all pay stupid sums of money to hunt, stalk, shoot, whatever you all want to call it but there's enough hypocritical folk on every forum that could be argued basically does the same thing to their quarry. (Whatever it is - makes no difference, it's only got the media attention as they are becoming increasingly rarer these days)