....and justice for all.

[u/Total_Volume_1096]

[u/Kennedy_KD]

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

[u/citizensyn → u/Kennedy_KD]

Also harambee not only didn't harm the child but very clearly made every effort to protect it from the other gorillas and the crowd

[u/100percent_right_now → u/citizensyn]

This is a false retelling of history. Harambe dragged the kid at high speed through a water filled concrete pool causing several abrasive burns across the kid's body. He definitely harmed the kid.

Harambe probably didn't intend to hurt the child, he was just confused, but humans are much more fragile than gorillas.

Ultimately though I'd rather be upset a gorilla was killed than deal with the fallout of the child being killed. Who knows how much gorilla hate there would be. How much potentially less gorilla conservation. It's an unfortunate thing to have to admit that outside the memes this was the better outcome.

[u/SocraticVoyager → u/100percent_right_now]

Sad thing is, if that kid had been killed rather than the ape, people would likely not remember it anymore.