First Triwizard task....cruel?

[fandulin]

No: HPFGUIDX 100733

I was re-reading portions of GoF the other day, my favorite volume, 
and it occurred to me that the first Triwizard task is a little 
cruel.  Has anyone else thought this?  They take these awesome 
creatures, dragons, out of the wild, and ship them to England for 
sport keeping them under control until the contest by continuously 
stunning them.  They then take these nesting mothers and put them in 
an enclosure for a student to do....well, who knows what to them.  I 
mean the kids are safe, what with all of the powerful wizards 
around, but they have no idea if these kids are going to do 
something that will seriously hurt the dragons or their eggs.  Which 
is exactly what happens when Krum hits one of them in the eye with 
the conjunctivitis curse, causing it to run around in agony 
trampling half of it's own young.  All fun and games though, 
apparently, with a few points taken off.  It's particularly galling 
that Charlie Weasly, supposedly some kind of naturalist, who studies 
these creatures in the wild, would be complicit in this. On one 
hand, we're to believe that it's a great sin to harm a unicorn, but 
on the other hand, dragons, equally legendary creatures, are 
apparently fair game.

Or am I being overly sensitive?   

I was just wondering if anyone else had given this any thought.