"Mommy loves you!" claims mom to her todler hanging out with a silverback gorilla
05-31-2016, 11:47 PMQuote: (05-31-2016 10:05 PM)Sherman Wrote:
I don't think they should have killed the Gorilla.
Think about it. An invader suddenly enters Harambe's territory accompanied by hysterical screams from the crowd above further confusing him. He is responsible for protecting the tribe. He could have easily killed the kid in two seconds and eliminated the threat. Instead, he shows real restraint and at times even appears to be protective of the stranger. This shows that unlike humans, a wild gorilla is slow to kill without cause. In fact, he showed no aggression towards the child, but the humans killed him for what he "might" do, not what he actually did. The human, employed by a bureaucracy and enslaved by its mindset, responded with rules and procedures, whereas the animal was being led by his intuition.
Maybe this is why humans are quicker to kill than animals.
Ah yes- the fumbling, confused and inept human, weighed down with his lower intellect and poor self awareness, rash decision making and cloudy consciousness. It's surprising the human can even wipe himself, isn't it?
The human is once again shown to be foolish and naive compared to the wise, astute, and uncorrupted gorilla, which does not act rashly but contemplates all outcomes and uses his power only with great restraint and with a deep moral conviction. If you look closely you can see, if only for a moment, the gorilla give a knowing nod to the mother that he had the measure of the situation and would follow the proper, nay, instinctual procedure for returning human children without harm. If only we would have given the gorilla more time to get his bearings he would have had the child back to safety. It was a certainty really, and well worth the obviously miniscule risk that a human child might die.
This was going to happen right after dragging the child by the leg 100 feet through a rocky waterway, at speed, a few more times. It was all part of the natural gorilla human rescue procedure. See, a gorilla doesn't have that damned bureaucracy that so clouds the judgement of when to save babies- the majestic and pure animal can just do the right thing, the best thing for humans, and always does so.
Tragically, we just didn't let the animal fully complete the rag doll dragging ritual which of course immediately precedes the saving part, as you well know.
Americans are dreamers too