Moral Consequences To Kill A Healthy Giraffe

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There are moral consequences for this man who killed a healthy giraffe. This man should be giving some punishment for killing an innocent giraffe. I understand that the giraffe are part of an international breeding program but that didn’t give the right to kill the giraffe. His concern was if the giraffe was to be sterilized it will take up space for other animals. He should have accepted to give the giraffe to another zoo where he was going to be kept. He should have also accepted the money a man offer so he won’t kill the giraffe. I think the man wanted to kill the animal because he had a lot of options to not kill the innocent healthy giraffe. I did not agree to what he did to the giraffe once he killed him. He decide to do an outside

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