Christian Cooper knew he was about to destroy the life of another human being over a very trivial incident, or he is stupid.
To my mind, the chief lesson from this incident is how cold hearted and sadistic normal Americans have become, eager to tattle tale on other people for objectively minor reasons, knowing that the consequences for the person they tattled on will be permanent and 1000 times out of proportion to the wrong itself.
But the Informo-American can bask in public adulation in throwing the first stone and watching as millions more throw their self-righteous stones.
This wasn’t a trivial incident.
He asked her or told her to leash the dog that was loose in a protected area. She refused.
After that she came close to him and threatened him and he started filming her. She then made a false call to the police that he was threatening her - after Minn. he could have been killed by that fake call.
This was NOT trivial - if she had said “ok, ok, i’m leashing the dog and going” and then he filmed her, that would have been trivial. But this was not trivial
[To my mind, the chief lesson from this incident is how cold hearted and sadistic normal Americans have become, eager to tattle tale on other people for objectively minor reasons, knowing that the consequences for the person they tattled on will be permanent and 1000 times out of proportion to the wrong itself.]