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That's terrible what happened. It was hard to read about the 3 year old Torsten getting shot... > Two separate legal investigations into the park over their co
by rdtsc 3y ago
That's terrible what happened. It was hard to read about the 3 year old Torsten getting shot...
> Two separate legal investigations into the park over their conduct are ongoing, one for the alleged crime of neglecting human safety in allowing the chimpanzees to escape, and another for violation of Sweden’s Animal Welfare Act in killing the four apes.
That's a bit of a catch-22 situation. Had they instead gone to file the animal welfare act euthanasia paperwork, they could be even more liable for neglecting human safety. If they called the hunters, and killed the animals, presumably so they don't harm humans, now they are breaking the animal safety law.
> “The animal keeper that forgot that door has had a very, very tough time,” Wilke told me. The public reaction has also not been kind. “When we read people say that we’re the ones who should be shot, that we’re monsters and savages, it’s horrible,” said Beldt.
I guess we are just as fickle and go from playful to violent, just like the chimpanzees they are describing in the article. Random strangers are quite happy to have the zoo keepers shot over this.
- jjk166 3y agoI mean if you imagine a scenario like leaving a vehicle running such that a human child could drive it around out of control, and to protect people from the vehicle you killed the kid, we'd undoubtedly be complaining about both letting an innocent being in your care get into the situation where they posed a threat to others, as well as dealing with that threat by killing the innocent being. The sin is not killing the chimpanzees, the sin is creating a situation where they had to kill the chimpanzees.
- rdtsc 3y agoI don't quite want to entertain the parallel, it's a bit too gruesome... In a way it would imply there is a paper form one has to fill to call the "hunters" and allow them to shoot. So then the state would raise an objection about not filling the paperwork, while also objecting that the human lives were put in danger. But then if they sat down and started to fill out forms and mail them in to get permission, they would have gotten in more trouble over putting lives in danger for even longer. So it's a Kafkaesque kind of a situation.
- zlg_codes 3y ago> I guess we are just as fickle and go from playful to violent, just like the chimpanzees they are describing in the article. Doesn't take much time in this world to derive that fact. Humans are not the logical, order-following, intellectual beast some of them see themselves as. We are, at best, clever monkeys who are good at detecting patterns and making up bullshit for the tribe to swallow.