Whats a life worth?
By now everyone has heard of the 3 year old boy that managed to climb his way into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo. Fearing for the boy's life, zoo officials made the decision to shoot and kill the 400-pound Silverback gorilla named Harambe. I'm not here to discuss whose fault it was or even if it was necessary, everyone else is doing that. What I am more interested in is people's reaction to it. Several questions have occurred to me. Why is it that people's first reaction was not relief of saving a child's life, but outrage over killing an animal? Why is there more outrage about the death of Harambe the gorilla and Cecil the lion than millions of babies being aborted, or Christian's dying in Syria? Yes, it's unfortunate that this incident happened at all, and that an endangered species had to be put down, but what does it say about us? We live in a world where people increasingly care more about animal life than human life. Of course, this...