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Indeed. It's only the doctrine of the Imago Dei that gives us a reason to highly esteem the life of man. According to Genesis 9 the gorilla would have to be killed if it killed the boy. A policy like that would never fly in our world today!
Actually, my parents DID use a harness on my oldest brother, because he was curious and always getting into things, a trait that did help him when he started schooling, but is a detriment for a child too young to understand boundaries.
I feel for the gorilla in that lowland silver back gorillas are endangered. And this one did not have to die. He wasn't going to hurt this boy. He was protecting this child as he would one of his own. The screaming people caused the gorilla to go into protective mode. He covered the boy and stood there looking at the crowd of screamers.
He wasn't able to discern they were screaming in fear of the child. In his world even in captivity screaming passionate emotions that gorillas can sense on a wholly different level than humans means threat.
Now this boy will have to live with the horrific emotional scars afforded from his fall and injuries. As well as hearing the gunshots , the buckling shock of the bullet impacts upon the body of the gorilla who was protecting him. The smell of cordite, hot blood, the sounds of the gorilla taking the bullets and then dying.
A tranquilizer would have saved the boy and the gorilla. The decision to kill this gorilla was irresponsible.
That's fair. I think people have a bit of a basis towards any animal based on how close it is to being human. People don't care as much about fish, or insects, etc. And what about mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, parasitic worms, etc.? They can harm us and we gladly would wipe them out. Although as far as I know nobody is really trying extensively.I somehow have never felt much sympathy for alligators. They just look evil.
Or the boy will only remember playing with a gorilla and falling a sleep. I'm sure the family will do what they can to help the boy.
That's fair. I think people have a bit of a basis towards any animal based on how close it is to being human. People don't care as much about fish, or insects, etc. And what about mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, parasitic worms, etc.? They can harm us and we gladly would wipe them out. Although as far as I know nobody is really trying extensively.
Interesting. Just goes to show that in certain situations humans are willing to eat almost anything that won't kill them aside from heir own kind.I had a friend who did some research with a professor in the Amazon jungle. It turned out they didn't bring near enough food and while there was plenty of fruit around they were basically starving for want of protein. A group of hunters and gatherers came across them and taught them how to catch and prepare pythons to eat. The foragers would also roast monkeys but our researchers couldn't stomach that. It looked to them like they were cooking babies.
In some situations, some humans are perfectly willing to eat human meat, as well.Interesting. Just goes to show that in certain situations humans are willing to eat almost anything that won't kill them aside from heir own kind.
Turns out the boy was only three. The child suffered serious injuries though more probably from the fall than the gorilla, though the way it was swing that kid around something could have got dislocated.
In some situations, some humans are perfectly willing to eat human meat, as well.
We know the kid suffered some serious injuries. We don't know really what exactly caused the injuries. It could have been the fall, it could have easily been from getting dragged around.Something DID get dislocated or COULD have? No need to add to the story unless it is the meteor that COULD have hit the earth and killed the gorilla and kid.
The parents weren't watching their child. The boy isn't the son of the zoo he's the son of parents who had something other to do than watch their boy when he was near a gorilla enclosure. And now a gorilla who was actually looking after the boy who became injured due to parental neglect is dead.
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