For anyone interested, I will be teaching this class next month. It is my area of expertise, so please do share.
Counterpoint: Of *course* they should've shot the tiger. Human lives are more valuable than the lives of zoo animals, even when the human is being an idiot. There's no point in killing the tiger now, sure. But they absolutely should have done so when it mattered.
Anyone else surprised that a tiger is being shown more sympathy than an actual human being who was probably suffering from mental health issues? If the tiger got shot, we'd have riots, but I guess it's just a mentally unwell human being...who cares right...crazy world...
