[EinNYC]

It actually looked like the gorilla was trying to protect the kid. The idiots screaming from above surely contributed to its confusion and agitation. I still do not think every option was utilized, such as distracting it with food. This "mother" and her spawn should be permanently banned from the zoo. Let them become pariahs. Her parenting skills are apparently less than those of the gorillas.

The kid disobeyed the mother. The gorilla was confused by the strange simian in its environment. It did not immediately rend the kid limb from limb, but appeared to protect it. This is a colossal shame and disgrace. A beautiful and endangered creature minding its own business killed because of a careless mother and frankly stupid kid.

Flame away, I could not give a hang.

[familyop]

"It actually looked like the gorilla was trying to protect the kid. The idiots screaming from above surely contributed to its confusion and agitation. I still do not think every option was utilized, such as distracting it with food. This "mother" and her spawn should be permanently banned from the zoo. Let them become pariahs. Her parenting skills are apparently less than those of the gorillas.

The kid disobeyed the mother. The gorilla was confused by the strange simian in its environment. It did not immediately rend the kid limb from limb, but appeared to protect it. This is a colossal shame and disgrace. A beautiful and endangered creature minding its own business killed because of a careless mother and frankly stupid kid.

Flame away, I could not give a hang."

No flames from me, but I will sometimes analyze arguments from a moral point of view in order to see a situation from a different perspective than those behind most popular comments. Many people who are morally pious are beginning to wander too far, some even to the extent of using false or irrelevant accusations to shut down meat production plants and institutionalize good moral leaders. Some ancient civilizations made the same mistake.

Part of the reason for our isolation from physical realities might be our more common isolation from agriculture and animals. It's true that we should not consume the flesh of an animal that's still alive. It's a prohibition against a practice of an evil, pre-ancient society and might possibly be a prohibition against becoming generally more cruel.

Remember, though, that a cat, for example, has the spirit of a cat--very different from that of a human being. We are permitted to make uses of animals that involve killing them while not being permitted to allow any animal that kills a human being to go on living.

Yes, we are different. But I'm not Esav.

The gorilla was more likely coveting the child instead of protecting him, in my opinion. If my working dog catches a prairie dog, I do not try to snatch the prairie dog from him in a direct confrontation, and gorillas are much more dangerous.

And I do clean up after handling the dog in any circumstance. Also in my opinion, the child being discussed should not be described as a "simian" (even in metaphor) in the contexts of an animal worshiping discussion.

As told by prophets, many in every nation (no exceptions there) are beginning to be turned. For each of us, which of the two sides will we be on?