Responding to Animal Deaths, and What That Says About Humans

Can it really be true that we are still talking about Harambe the gorilla, who died on May 28? Yet in the June 27 Weekly Standard, our colleague Wesley Smith makes profound points about the events last month at the Cincinnati Zoo that perhaps could only become clear with the passage of some time and the perspective that brings.

There's no question that we respond to deaths, animal and human, based on an unfathomable emotional logic:

We saw the same kind of outrage when an American killed Cec...