Just eat more of that lettuce, dear.

Just imagine! No more hungry wabbits, no more snarky gays with nice hair, etc

Are you obsessed with life like it's precious or something....?

No, I honestly suffer through life. In fact, I daily wake up pounding my head with my hand in order to get all of life's supreme disappointments out of my head. I state aloud, "get out of my head". I'm not normal, I'm just human.

I am here due to the fact that my parents gave birth to me. I persist only because I am too much of a coward to end my own life.

Have you had enough honesty yet?

(June 1, 2016 at 11:35 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:

(June 1, 2016 at 10:26 pm)Cato Wrote: I really struggle with my attempt to understand those that seemingly would have preferred the death of the child.

I followed you up to this retarded point.

None of us wished the death of the child, but some of us neither wished the death of the gorilla.

I actually agree with the assessment that the gorilla was actually acting in a manner to protect the child from the angry, screaming crowd above.  You can disagree with that.

I will further state that there are powerful tranquilizers that are created to take an animal down quickly.  Those taking the side of the zoo that state the tranquilizers would take up to thirty minutes to take effect are utter retards.

Again, you can be a douche in disagreeing with me, you can be retarded in disagreeing with me.  It is your right to have your own opinion.

I am a douche and a retard for disagreeing? How charitable, despite your recognition of my right to do so.

I have no doubt that most everyone would have preferred an outcome similar to that in a similar instance at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago in 1996; one in which there was no loss of life. The difference being that the gorilla in that case immediately and tenderly took the child directly to zookeepers. What I could not let go was the sentiment attending 'feeling sorrier for Harambe's family than anyone else involved' and the justifications registered in its defense.

Conversations about habitat encroachment and the practice of confining animals in zoos are perfectly reasonable topics for discussion and I think we would find a lot of common ground; however, when a four year old child's life is in danger nobody is going to assemble a committee for debate prior to taking action. It's almost as if you would have me believe that if it was your four year old child's mortality at stake that you would simply let nature take its course. Had Harambe not been shot, nobody knows what would have happened, least of all YouTube video observers with no expertise in dealing with these creatures in general or with Harambe in particular. The quality of the exhibit's barrier, which had worked for 38 years, and the attentiveness of the parent are fucking irrelevant considerations once child meets gorilla face to face.

If I am to be the standard bearer for doucheism and retardation for doing nothing more than offering reasoned consideration different from your expert opinion then I shall endeavor to find the tallest mast from which to fly those colors.

(June 2, 2016 at 1:27 am)Cato Wrote: I have no doubt that most everyone would have preferred an outcome similar to that in a similar instance at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago in 1996; one in which there was no loss of life. The difference being that the gorilla in that case immediately and tenderly took the child directly to zookeepers.

You left out a major difference, one which changes the entire equation. The gorilla in that instance was female and this one was male. The absolute major difference is that despite the gender difference, the male gorilla was still attempting to protect the child from what he perceived as a threat from above. Do you not get it? How can you not?

(June 2, 2016 at 1:27 am)Cato Wrote: What I could not let go was the sentiment attending 'feeling sorrier for Harambe's family than anyone else involved' and the justifications registered in its defense.

I didn't agree with you being a douche until I realized you weren't addressing me directly when you took issue with something I said, and then quoted me without actually using the quote function, which I know you're perfectly capable of using. That's kinda douchey, dude.

A major underestimation in this discussion is that male gorillas tend to be very territorial. That boy would have been dead. He is not dead due to the fact that the gorilla was actually being protective, albeit a very male way.

(June 2, 2016 at 1:37 am)The_Empress Wrote:

(June 2, 2016 at 1:27 am)Cato Wrote: What I could not let go was the sentiment attending 'feeling sorrier for Harambe's family than anyone else involved' and the justifications registered in its defense.

I didn't agree with you being a douche until I realized you weren't addressing me directly when you took issue with something I said, and then quoted me without actually using the quote function, which I know you're perfectly capable of using. That's kinda douchey, dude.

If I have violated etiquette or have personally offended in any way, you have my sincere apologies. I intentionally didn't provide attribution since it wasn't my intent to impugn individuals, but provide counterpoint to an underlying theme in the thread. Your comment just happened to be a memorable example as I was replying to another post. Now that you have called this out, I can easily see how this may be perceived as underhanded; however, my intentions were otherwise.

OK, but nobody can say that the gorilla's rough natural style of protectiveness wouldn't have killed the boy 3 minutes later as he picked him up by the leg to take him to another shelf banging his head along the way.

No one would or should risk it if you put human life above all others.
That's a topic for another day.

(June 2, 2016 at 1:51 am)ignoramus Wrote: OK, but nobody can say that the gorilla's rough natural style of protectiveness wouldn't have killed the boy 3 minutes later as he picked him up by the leg to take him to another shelf banging his head along the way.

No one would or should risk it if you put human life above all others.
That's a topic for another day.

Oh, you're a psychic now. Congrats.