http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/astonishing-new-footage-shows-gorilla-8082168

People complain that there are greater tragedies in the world that we're ignoring worrying about a gorilla in a zoo being shot in defense of a child.

But people are genuinely upset about this.

Possibly because they recognize the gorilla as also an intelligent soul, capable of empathy, who didn't deserve to be killed because of the mistake of a child, and his mother, and all the rest of the adults who took no action while the child climbed into the enclosure.

Possibly because they're heartless like me, and would rather have clemency on the gorilla that did nothing wrong, one of 30,000 left of his species, and give the situation a little time, and try to resolve it another way, instead of putting so much concern over one of 8,000,000,000 people on this over-populated planet of humans...

The human response is always to immediately destroy the threat. But intelligent people see that it was only a threat for this instant. Destroying it destroys more than the gorilla - it further destroys our humanity.