When Harambe, a now-famous gorilla at the Cinncinnati zoo, was shot for endangering a small child, animal rights activists protested, calling into question moral reasoning that privileges the possibility of injury to a human over definite violence to an animal. Many others, though less vehement in their objection, voiced the same questions: was the gorilla any worse than the negligent parents? Doesn't Harambe have rights just like you and me? How do we decide what animals deserve and how we ought to treat them? To what extent are our attitudes towards animals embedded in our subconscious...
When Harambe, a now-famous gorilla at the Cinncinnati zoo, was shot for endangering a small child, animal rights activists protested, calling into que...
