well one human was a small child who fell in by accident, the other was a grown man who was determined to jump into the tiger enclosure-to the point of overpowering a woman who tried to stop him from jumping into the enclosure
That was not Harambe.
You are thinking about Jambo the male Silverback who actively protected a child who fell into the gorilla enclosure in 1986 on Jersey Zoo.
There's actually multiple instances of gorillas helping kids that get in the enclosure, which is why Harambe is so tragic.
He could've been just another gorilla trying to do exactly that, but we gauged his body language, the (unintended) violence the kid was facing from being dragged around, and also male gorillas are more dangerous, so for all we know, we shot an innocent gorilla that was just waiting for the zookeeper to show up.
But it's not up to it's intentions. Other gorillas ensured there was no harm to the child. In Harambe's case even if the intention of the gorilla was to protect, it wasn't very successful at that and was actually hurting the child.
It's a humancentric point of view. I personally feel that it is fair game when an animal manages to kill a person. We kill so many animals unnecessarily that I find it difficult to feel bad when it goes the other way.
That doesn't mean I don't have empathy. It's just that my empathy is not limited to the human species.
I agree, we live amongst each other. I think humans have a responsibility to be smarter about how we move about the natural world because of our tools and knowledge. Some of it is out of our control but for the most part we have the upper hand, animals are almost purely running on instinct and survival, we should avoid putting them in that position.
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well one human was a small child who fell in by accident, the other was a grown man who was determined to jump into the tiger enclosure-to the point of overpowering a woman who tried to stop him from jumping into the enclosure