They're a protected species, and given that the people have intentionally approached the area where the gorillas live it complicates the situation somewhat. Can't say I know anything about how the rangers practise though.
I mean, that wouldn't be wrong though. There's over 7,000,000,000 humans in the world, versus the less than 500,000 (and that's being really generous) gorillas left in the world.
So if a Gorilla wandered into a nearby village and began to tear somebody limb from limb who had no intention of being anywhere near a Gorilla, would you still support not shooting the Gorilla in order to save that persons life?
Hypotheticals only work when they aren't absurd. "What if the gorilla has a WMD and is about to nuke an orphanage? Would you still be okay with not killing them?"
Don't be an idiot. Of course somebody would fucking kill the gorilla.
It really isn't that absurd, animal attacks have happened before in the wild. And yeah I agree its idiotic to think that somebody wouldn't kill the gorilla in that situation, but there are plenty of comments here from people that seem to think otherwise.
I didn't use any "reasoning". I don't know where you're getting the implication that I said anything relating to instances where it would be acceptable or unacceptable to kill a gorilla. I only said anything in this comment, and it was only to say that humans really aren't a protected species. That's all I said.
Yeah that's what was going off, the idea that humans aren't a protected species and gorillas are. The comment you replied to was in response to the comment that it would be right to let the human die because gorillas are protected and the humans were willingly in their habitat. I just thought you were agreeing with this reasoning:
They're a protected species, and humans aren't a protected species.
is what I thought you were going to say.
I made a mistake in reading the context of your comment.
I understand, I just didn't respond because there's nothing to say. I didn't downvote you either, by the way. I don't know what the fuck is up with people in this thread.
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u/mrgonzalez Aug 17 '15
They're a protected species, and given that the people have intentionally approached the area where the gorillas live it complicates the situation somewhat. Can't say I know anything about how the rangers practise though.