I guess we'll have to agree to disagree! It is certainly a hot, and debatable topic!
I think that you'd have to agree that it would be better to protect the spikes, than the old "East Tex" theory of "shoot all the bucks, and protect all the does!"

I've just come to believe that "cull," is a very over-used word! Some folks wouldn't know a real "cull," if it gored them in the a$$!