I don't think the OP's stance on foxes is that odd or particularly unreasonable and I'm a bit surprised how the balance of the thread has gone really.
I can see that foxes are predators and are a financial cost to the farming industry. But I think that is a cost worth paying to have wildlife and not live in a sterile rural environment. We've already eradicated wolves, bears, beavers, almost red squirrels (these were treated as vermin and paid for the culling of before greys), otters, various raptors etc and now we're moving on to foxes and badgers too. There will be nothing left if we act as though wildlife has no intrinsic value when we decide that businesses can 'control'/destroy any natural inconvenience to making money.
E.g. last weeks country file, it is not the fault of otters that a fishery has based its economic viability on a 60lb fish that could one day be predated or die of old age or disease. Its ridiculous to suggest otters should be killed just in case one gets into the pond.
Businesses fail all the time for loads of different reasons, I don't think we should destroy biodiversity to try and keep them going. It is silly to focus on badgers, foxes and otters when the real reason that the finances are so precarious is the low prices paid by supermarkets.
As for hypocrisy, you can't really say someone is silly and naive for caring about wildlife as if liking an animal is ridiculous when in the same breath you make the point that farmers and back yard chicken keepers care for their livestock. Of course they do, and we can value and care for wildlife too.
We expect people in foreign countries to learn to live with much more dangerous, destructive neighbours like leopards, tigers and elephants because we see that if they don't, those animals will disappear. And yet, our own farmers seem incapable of tolerating a fox, badger, otter, our gamekeepers can't share shooting estates with raptors, townies can't tolerate gulls or starling flocks. Its pathetic.
If we don't protect it and learn to live with it, we will lose it. I care about that. It doesn't mean I can't sympathise with a farmer who finds their chickens destroyed by an opportunistic fox, of course it isn't pleasant and represents a loss of animals they have put care into breeding and caring for as well as the financial loss.
But people who then ascribe malice to the fox are as guilty of anthropomorphism as those who just see the cute and cuddle side. They are animals, caching in on a plentiful food resource whilst the going is good. It is a risk of our system that concentrates resources in this way.