Some of the outrage over the killing of Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion and the accusations against big-game hunter Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, found its way into our inbox this week. But amid the harsh expressions of contempt for someone who would kill, behead and skin a protected lion for sport are letters from several readers who take a broader view of the tragedy.
A few readers were moved enough by Cecil's death to send us poetry (one even composed his own poetic eulogy for the lion), and several pondered what the lion's killing and the anger over it say about our culture.