Perhaps the child grows up to be a president or a doctor or the next Terrell Davis. Does shooting the gorilla seem a little smarter now? Would the gorilla find a cure for cancer or rebuild an inner city? Or maybe the kid grows up to be a drug-selling ghetto rat who has issues for the rest of his life because mommy wouldn't stop him from falling into a moat. Then maybe the gorilla was doing us all a favor by offing the punk before he grew up to be a thug with a record as long as his old man's. We don't know at this point so we gave the kiddo the benefit of the doubt and spared him by killing the ape.