“See how you just equated shooting a monkey with shooting humans as moraly equivalent? Its not.”
I didn’t write or even imply moral equivalency of the lives of humans and monkeys. But short of equivalency there remains plenty of room to respect animals lives and avoid harming them out of ignorance, whim, and malevolence. Some people actually view God’s creation as worthy of respect rather than callous exploitation.
Because they are genetically close to humans, Rhesus monkeys are particularly valuable for testing vaccines and treatments that save millions of human lives. Killing them, rather than capturing them, is particularly idiotic, though the idiocy in this case began with the misreporting of the original story, wherein the monkeys were said to be twice their real size, infected with multiple dangerous diseases, and aggressive to humans. I don’t know if these were aggressive, but the size and infection part was false.
Chewbarkah, thank you for your response! I do not disagree with you regarding God's Creation. Dodos, passenger pigeons, the great Auk all lost to exploitation. Malevolence? Those individuals are acting in ways they know are deliberately wrong. The only answer to curing ignorance is education, but the targets of the education have to participate. Start education young is suppose, before you lose their good will.
This lady encountered something that from outsider her range of experience. Based on her understanding from the media and the example of the police she acted to protect her and other people's children and understood it as act of protection. I suppose she would do this for things within her range of normal experience for something like Coyote or Black Bear. (I note that I misspelled "Morally" in my original post! )