4 year old child falls into gorilla habitat

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

No, I instantly think "but it's a human being". Child, adult, man, woman, white, black, whatever - I'd prioritize the safety of the human far more than I would the gorilla. If there were a way to get both out of the situation safely it would have been done. Human beings should have a natural instinct to protect their own from harm - that's why we have laws against harming others, and why that's been the norm for pretty much all of human history.



If you don't balk at the notion of letting one child die, why should we believe you could care if thousands do? Is it because 1000 is a bigger number than one? If there were 8,000 of these gorillas instead of only 800, would you not have such apathy for the kid in question?

Man is an animal. A gorilla is as sentient as you or I. We don't share a common language, our brains are slightly different.

But you don't see that, you see less than. This is the same thinking MLK fought. It's the same thinking that lead to a need for black lives matter.

Dominant does not equal special, or more than. This was wrong, the zoo was wrong. It was murder.

The child would have survived. if the gorilla had killed the child, THEN, a case could be made. The Gorilla did not, the strike was presumptive, similar to how salespeople love to follow me around a store, "just in case". Similar to the stop and search that happens because of the color of my skin.

You want to argue that? You want to tell me the shoot first option isn't prejudicial?