Was driving to the store thinking about your comment and remembered this from way back.
I'm not arguing that gorillas are going to establish a Constitutional Republic anytime soon, but I think it at least makes one pause about the innate nature of minimizing suffering.
Begging more questions here. Does the gorilla have a sense of morality, or did God influence that gorilla to act against the standard set of instincts given to it? None of us can get inside that gorilla’s head, of course.