This is a disturbing trend. 

It used to be that habituated bears were killed because they had become habituated and were thus a threat. Now our modern culture, disney and PETA have convinced us that somehow bears have rights and we read countless comments that say "it's not their fault." 

These are bears not people, they have no rights. We manage them with best practices (for us because we don't care what's best for them or we'd all demolish our hillside homes and give them back their land, and stop catching their fish and crowding them out of their rivers). Draw a line people. If you think they have rights then move out and back off of their territory. If you, like I do, see them as a resource then start promoting their management for what is best for us.

But yeah it's stupid to attract bears and then expect somebody else to clean up the inevitable mess. Electric fences are neither dangerous, expensive, nor difficult to set up.