The Outcry Over a Gorilla’s Death

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/opinion/the-outcry-over-a-gorillas-death.html

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To the Editor:

Re “Zoo’s Killing of a Rare Gorilla, Holding a Boy, Prompts Outrage” (news article, May 31):

Staff members at the Cincinnati Zoo had to make a decision of Solomonic proportions last weekend.

We know the ending: The child lives. The gorilla died.

The critics continue to kvetch.

Rather than rehash this for the next few millenniums — or a long news cycle — perhaps those who are offended that Harambe died to save a child’s life can assuage their anger by contributing to gorilla conservation.

Those who feel that the zoo chose wisely could make a donation to the Cincinnati Zoo to support the remaining gorillas and their needs.

But must every incident become a drama pitting sanctimonious outsiders against one another in an ugly debauch of hate, name-calling and vituperation against the already wounded survivors?

Harambe is gone. Kindness would, at this point, be more helpful.

ELIZABETH GUSS

Santa Fe, N.M.