FUCK HARAMBE.
Fuck the memes, fuck the tweets, fuck the facebooks.
He needed to die.
For background, a child "climbed a 3-foot-tall(0.91 m) fence, crawled through 4 feet (1.2 m) of bushes, and then fell 15 feet (4.6 m) into a moat of shallow water", I took that information from Wikipedia so it must be true. Who was that child? How old was he? Does anyone remember? Of course not, they just remember the "innocent" gorilla Harambe who lost his life.
It is tragic.
A human child fell into the enclosure of a troop of gorillas and the world fell apart. WHAT TO DO??? The zoo keepers have three options...Shoot a tranquilliser dart, shoot a bullet or let nature take its course.
Lets work through the options:
1. Shoot a tranquilliser dart: Gorillas are tough...very fucking tough. Their skin is like leather, a tiny tranquilliser dart may penetrate the skin but as the zoo has pointed out it would take a while to kick in, in the meantime it would only enrage the gorilla which would probably kill the child out of anger...(I guess you still don't know the kids name yet).
2. Shoot a bullet. This will kill the gorilla instantly, I haven't really done any research because I am lazy but I assume they took a 'kill shot'. I don't know where that is on a gorilla, but I assume the head and/or torso.
3. Leave the wild animal with the child and see what happens. This seems like an awesome David Attenborough documentary but when you have to watch it on YouTube it seems quite perverse.
As far as I can see the zoo had two options. Kill an animal because it may kill a human child or watch on as a gorilla ripped apart a child for fun. You can choose which one is best and if you still think that the shooting of Harambe was not justified then maybe you need to rethink your perception on human life.
The only other headline that would have come out of this was "Zoo officials watch as child is mauled by gorilla"....that is a real tragedy.
Just in case you didn't know the child the zoo keepers saved was called Isiah Gregg.
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