HIS PARENTS ARE PIECES OF SHIT WHO DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED FOR THIS. OVER AND OVER. I CAN THINK OF MULTIPLE CHARGES THAT THESE OARENTS SHOULD HAVE AGAINST THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE PIECES OF SHIT!

“We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents.”

He came on right after Sesame Street when I was a kid. It put me in to a trance that took hours to shake and I looked forward to it every morning.

Fun fact: Ross used to be a drill sargent in the US Marines.

I’m not talking about his parents leaving him there. I’m talking about what you seem to think is the right course of action, once the kid is already in the enclosure. You asserting that a child should be given no more importance than the gorilla, in such a situation, leaves that child extremely vulnerable to death,…

An unusually high quality group of people in this thread. Be careful, this is how Mary-Grace and I became friends in real life.

Actually, given that it’s not a consistently applied or terribly formal medical term (it’s not a sanctioned, formal diagnosis, and it started out as a loose and informal term), and has a recognized informal usage in the English language to describe a mentally unbalanced person with a tendency towards antisocial and…

Nooooo! I’ve actually been on a bread bender tonight, too, researching how to make a sourdough starter. I can’t do it until after an upcoming trip, since there will be no one here to babysit the starter. Anyway, a sister baker has heard your pain and echoes your cries.

The implication, when she and I use it, is that you have demonstrated, via your stated desire to see people you disagree with killed by animals, and the highly unusual moral equivalence you draw between the lives of human children and animals, an antisocial lack of empathy and regard for the welfare of human beings.…

An armed white guy.

You just followed up one of the most substantive and intelligent comments you could ever have hoped for on this topic with a derogatory “Princess Bride” meme.

Oh, I like you.

I would be really sad and disturbed if the child had been killed but unlike you I don’t feel that a human life matters more. I really don’t and I’m not at all uncaring or a psychopath. I’m just concerned that this kind of thinking can—and has—led to such cruelty, neglect and abuse against non-human animals. I’m not…

Why? It’s because humans are going to prioritize their own, as all animal species do, as a matter of survival, and there is a well-developed structure of laws to ensure that that is followed. It’s not that there is an objective truth in the universe that humans are worth more. The universe has no moral values, and…

But you don’t think all lives matter. You said you want me to die being mauled by wildlife. If you’re seriously not clear on how you’re contradicting your own messaging here I invite you step back and reappraise your approach.

This! Everyone is either a perfect parent or knows how to be a perfect parent so this would never happen under their watch. I feel terrible for this mother. She took her kids the zoo. She lost track of one of them for a matter of a few minutes. And he turned out to be a flipping daredevil.

This is the basis for a lot of gawker outrage about a great many things. People like black and white solutions and naturally rationalize how terrible things could never happen to them or without them noticing.

Aw, thank you so much! There is so much of the “why didn’t she just leave” that goes on, I appreciate it so much when someone like you stands up and explains that it’s just not that easy! You rock!

I have shared this information on several posts related to this story, so I’ll share it again: I used to work at a children’s museum where kids were separated from their parents on a daily basis. It happened literally all the time. I even found kids wandering the parking garage. It just happens. Yes, even in crowded…

As we said... a psychopath.