Fuck the parents of this shitty kid, and anyone who defends them.

The child was “in danger” because of its own crappy-ass guardians. The endangered species should not be set back because of that without better reason than “maybe” it might hurt a dime a dozen human child.

I think they had no decision to make, really, considering our shitty litigious and natal-worshipping society.

Just imagine the carnage that may result from leaving him with his inept and pathetic parents from here on out. Gorilla beheading may have been a mercy.

When you make a decision you then deal with the ramifications of said decision. It’s called being an adult and a professional.

Really? Kids are not fast. Not even in the slightest. Kids are clumsy and slow as fuck. I suppose a lot of our overfed adults are clumsy and slow as fuck too, so never mind.

Like seriously, suddenly not letting your kid enter a gorilla cage is “helicopter parenting?” Um, wrong. Helicopter parenting does cause this type of crap because the kid never learns critical thinking. If they never let him bang himself up a bit he never learns to not approach massive wild animals.

Because you are a decent guardian and the parents of this kid are useless fucks with no sense of responsibility.

It seems so simple yet simple concepts seem to evade so many.

ehhhh it’s not hypocritical to eat an animal that is abundant and bred for meat, and want to preserve another animal in critical danger of being exterminated from the planet for fucking EVER.

You think they were actually GORILLA experts, not just zoo people with a rifle? I doubt it. And I firmly believe the decision was made from a liability standpoint rather than a “clear and present danger” standpoint. “It probably won’t hurt the kid. But what IF it does hurt the kid?” “Aw then we’re fucked in litigation…

You really think zoo animals should be hermetically sealed? sigh.

It seems more than reasonable to have tried tranquilizing the animal. When they “go crazy” when tranquilized they usually just try to escape, not kill other animals. It was total bullshit to have shot this gorilla for doing what it does.

Why should it, and, also, why should we, really?

Well there’s SO MANY goddamn children but not that many gorillas left, you know.

I’m confused about they know Texts A were sent by “a man” and Texts B were sent “by a woman.” How can one tell by a bunch of texts what sex the sender is?

That is an interesting way to think of it.

We generally don’t hear about women being abused in the news as often as it happens, but when a woman is the perpetrator or a man the victim, it’s headline news. Women victims are just a dime a dozen I suppose. I was shocked beyond measure when I looked at the crime map of my town and saw how many rapes happened in…

I pretty much believe that male violence will never be addresses as a problem with men until men experience the same level of violence directed at them. So I, personally, don’t think woman-on-man violence needs too much attention at the moment. When the numbers approach equality, then I might care about the rando…

Seriously?