we’ll have to agree to disagree on this. i never posted on the threads about it because it seemed some were pretty emotional over it. to me it was simple - the boy was in danger - remove danger. and it was a great shot..... danger removed.
I don’t “agree to disagree” on anything. I just disagree.
We live in a climate of such fear that things that used to mark humanity, such as caring for even inconvenient animals, has gotten shoved to the back burner if not taken quite off the stove.
Maybe Harambe deserved the compassion. He does so more than people, who are sinners. Animals may be violent, but they do not sin.
“to me it was simple - the boy was in danger - remove danger. “
Bingo. With animals, no matter domesticated or not, there is no level of predictability of action that will allow you to not act quickly and decisively in situations like that. Its not the animal’s fault, but they are on the receiving end of whatever action takes place.
The crime was not the killing of the gorilla. The crime was the lack of human-proof enclosures at this zoo, and the negligently criminal behavior of the child’s parents. The zoo should be harshly penalized, and the parents jailed.